"Something to do with cattle", I thought, because of bu-. It should have then followed that -gloss = tongue, but it's too early in the morning for me to spot that.
Anyway, it's apparently ox-tongue. Bu = bos, as in bovine, boeuf, beef; gloss as in glossary. B > On 20 Jun 2018, at 07:20, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > The English name, Viper's Bugloss, is much more interesting. I have no idea > of the etymology. > >> On 19 June 2018 at 22:07 Henk Terhell <hterh...@chello.nl> wrote: >> >> >> Thanks Dan and Ann. >> The blue flowers with the poppy in the third pic is Echium vulgare or >> blueweed according Wikipedia. These are here quite abundant as well at >> present and the bees like them. >> >> Henk >> >> Op 2018-06-19 om 22:51 schreef ann sanfedele: >>> Henk, >>> enjoyed the whole gallery so much -- the orchids are nice , but a >>> number of others really talked to me more.. and I dont see thatyou had >>> shared those with PDML before. >>> These: >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42102765704/in/photostream/ >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/41915613115/in/photostream/ >>> >>> and this one >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42777152291/in/photostream/ >>> a lonely orange bloom among the purple stalks - which look to me to be >>> a poppy and pentstamon- >>> >>> ann >>> >>>> On 6/19/2018 4:35 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: >>>> It looks like we had a good year for this type of wild orchid as I've >>>> seen here so many in the wet fields in our dunes: >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/29033030688/in/photostream/ >>>> >>>> Henk > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
