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 10 A GLOSSARY OF DSVONSHIRE PLAIIT NAMES. Blanket Leaf, (I) Stachys lanaia, L, a smaller plant than the next, hut similar. (2) Verhagcum Thapgua, L., so called on account of the woolly tesctuie of the lea£ In Sussex the small plant {Stachys lanatas) with a similar leaf is called *' Saviour's Blanket." (Cf. French, BauHlan blanc, as the name of the Verbascum.) Blbbdino Heart, (1) Didytra spedahilis, DC, formerly called ^* Dutchman's Breeches." (Freaks and Marvels of Plant lAfe^ p. 274) and in Somerset still known as Locks and Keys, Deutsa, Dialetus, &c., the latter being corruptions of the unintelligible word Dieljrtra. (2) Chetraafdhus Cheiri, L., the common red Wallflower. (Cf. Prior, p. 24, '' apparently dating from a time when in its ordinary state it [the wallflower] was called Hearts-ease,**) Bliddt Waw-yer. (Cf. Bloody Warbiob.) Blind Nettle, Oaleopsis Tretrahit, L. Marshall's list of words, quoted and illustrated in Trans. Devon. Assoc, viL 443, where see Mr. Pengelly's interesting note. Britten, p. 51 ; Prior, p. 24. The name is applied to many of the labiatae. (Qf, Stinging Nettle; Earle, p. 36.) Bloody Warrior, Cheiraivtlivs Chein, L. The name is especially applied to the dark-flowered variety, and is not confined to Devon- shire. (Of, Prior, p. 25; Britten, pp. 52, 53, and note under Banwort, (2) p. 25 ; Flora Historica, i 86 ; Sir J. Bownng, whose name I may quote in connexion with Devonshire lore, employs the name in the London Magazine — Spanish Eomances, No. 3 — of the Aleli grosero, "The sun-flower and the Bloody warrior occupy the parterre ; they are no favourites of mine." Gf, Flora Domestical p. xxiv.) Warrior is a corruption of Wall-yer. {Cf. " Bloody Wall " as another name for TFciZZ-flower, and " Waw-yer.") Blossom Withy, Phlox acutifolia^ L., the acute-leaved, perennial Phlox. The plant has the appearance of a withy in bloom. This name will help to illustrate the use of the name Withy below. '^Blossom" in this case retains its sense of ''flower." {Cf. Earle, p. 19: " i^'Zo*, blostm.") Blue Bell, a name which is given to several flowers on account of their blue colour and bell-shape, but which has eventually been applied to flowers possessing only the first quality in some places. Thus we have — (1) Campanula rotundifolia, L., the '^ Blue-bells of Scotland," and a right handsome plant in its wild state, as I have found it growing near Hamilton Palace and Bothwell Bridge, famous in the history of the Scotch Covenanters. "But we find even in our own small island that what a Scotchman calls a ' Blue-bell,' and makes the subject of popular songs, is a totally different flower from the English Blue-bell." (Prior, xx. p. 25.) In Devonshire the people call the Campanula by the same name as that by which it is known in Scotland. But in this lovely coimty we are