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Poem in French, of an amatory character.

Some Queries are now annexed, in reference to what has been above discussed:

F. MADDEN.

British Museum.

Minor Queries.

Lord Roscommon says:

W. EWART.

University Club.

TOWER.

A. C.

C. M. T.

Oare.

In a catalogue of Jno. Miller's , I see them attributed to Combe.

Philadelphia.

R. H. B.

H. T. RILEY.

H. T. RILEY.

W. PINKERTON.

CESTRIENSIS.

E. C.

In some old grounds in Warwickshire there is a circle of nine old elm-trees; and, besides the well-known Nine Elms at Vauxhall, and Seven Oaks in Kent, there are several other places of the same names in England.

J. S. A.

Old Broad Street.

T. C. T.

TEE BEE.

TEE BEE.

E. C.

J. S. A.

Old Broad Street.

The Query I would more particularly ask is , What is the prophecy so wonderfully fulfilled?

R. W.

I would ask, therefore, Why carved? From what event or occasion? For whom? Why called "Tom Thumb's House?" And what are the other curious carvings?

G. CREED.

The express terms of the publication of his monovolune edition of Shakspeare, as advertised, were--

I now ask MR. COLLIER, on what authority were these emendations adopted?

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

Replies.

WILD PLANTS AND THEIR NAMES.

Perhaps the following may prove of some use to ENIVRI, in reply to his Query respecting the names of certain wild flowers.

A plant termed in this country Gang Flower is the same as Rogation Flower, recalling the perambulation of parishes on one of those days. There is a vast fund of interesting matter in these old names of wild flowers ; and I cordially agree with your correspondent, that it is well worth a steady effort to rescue the fast-fading traditions relating to them. It must be confessed, however, that the obstacles in the way of tracing the original meaning and supposed virtues, will in many instances be found very great, arising principally from the fanciful translations and corruptions which our ancestors made of the old names. Take, for instance, the following:

Herb Ambrose has a Greek origin, , and is not indebted to the saint of that name.

Calathian Violets. Simply cupped violets, from .

Brank Ursin . "It. brancha, unguis ursinus."

Bertram. A corruption of .

Such instances might be multiplied to almost any extent.

There is, doubtless, a good deal of scattered information respecting old English wild flowers to be met with, not only in books, but also among our rural population, stored up by village sages. Contributions of this description would surely be welcome in "N. & Q."

H. C. K.

"I have not trusted," he says, "to the reports of authors, but have wrote as an eye-witness in describing most things therein; and it is nothing but what I know and have learnt by daily experience for thirty years together, so that my prescriptions may in some measure plead a privilege above the performances of other men."

R. J. SHAW.

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