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 46 A GLOSSARY OF DEVOKSHIRE PLANT NAMSS. (2) Oynerium argenteunif L. Pampas Oiaas. (Trans, Devon. Assoc xiL p. 210.) The name is also applied to London Pride {Sasdftxtga umbrosa^ L.) in many parts of England ; bnt I am not suTe as to its being so applied in Deyonshiie. In Cornwall bunches of lilac-blossom bear the name. It is also common to hear Prinob-of- Wales' Feather for the foregoing. Pbinkle. a corruption of Periwinkle. Prettt-and-Little. The common Viiginia Stock. (Of. Little- and-Prettt.) Prior (p. 189) giyes PrattUng Pamell as a name for London Pride (Saxifraga umbrosOy L.) ; and I hare already shown that the Virginia Stock has, in the West, inherited many of the names of that plant Quarendsl, or Quarender. Name of an appla Spelt Quarenden in the catalogues. The usual pronunciation of tiie first syllable is very broad, Quben-of-the-Meabow, 8pir(Ba Ulmaria, L. (Cff, Prior, p. 193.) Quick-beam. '* The loc»l name [about Ashburton] for the Maun- tain-ash, W. P." — Trans. Devon. Assoc, ix. p. 137. (Prior, p. 194.) QuiNOBT, Pynis Cydonia, L. The Quince. (Qf. Prior, pt 194 ; Diez, Romance Dictionary ^ p. 150.) QumcH. A kind of apple. Corruption of Quince — a certain apple being known elsewhere as a quince^pple. Rabbits, or Rabbit-flower, (1) Linaria mdgaris^ L. Because the flowers of the Toad-flax open and shut, when pressed, exactly as the mouth of a rabbit does. (2) Antirrhinum maJuSf L., and other yarieties of Snapdragon. (See BuNNT Rabbit.) (3) Linaria Oymhalaiia, MilL The Ivy-leaf Toad-flax. Ragged Robin, Lychnis Flos-cuadi, L. Dr. Prior's explanation is fimciful (p. 195) : '^ French, Rohinet dechire, from its application, upon the doctrine of signatures, to the laceration of the organ so- called ; a name suggested by its finely-laciniated petals.'' No such local explanation will suffice when we find that a name is inter- national ; and it is much more probable that Robin and Robinet are names of some &mous person of the middle ages, mythical or feaL {Infray 8.yv. Robin, Robin Hood, &c ; snpra, Cock Robin, Poor Robin.) Ramsey, Ramsies, or Ramson, Allium ursinum, L. {IVans, Devon. Assoc, xiii 211, and the notes there.) Prior (p. 195): strong odour, and the rank flavour that it communicates to milk and butter. Ramsmi would be the plural of ramse, as peason of pease, and oxen of ox." (Cf. Primrosen, Butter-rosen, Rosen, Slonb [Sloen] ; Earle, pp. 12, 27.) Ram*8-foot Root, Oeiim urhanum, L. The root of Avens, or Herb Bennet, is exactly like a hare's foot, on which account an
 * ' A.S. liramsa, Norw. rams, rank ; a wild garlick so called from its