"avena" (Lat.), "avoine" (Fr.). What
_dictionary_ defines "aver" (French) as denoting the _annual_ stock or
produce of a farm?

D.2.

E.M., in his Note on J. MN.'s remarks on hogs, mentions that the term
_aver_, _averium_, is still used in Guernsey. Is not this word closely
connected with the _Eber_ of the German Jaegers?

E.H.K.

_Pilgarlic_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.).--Sir John Denham spelt this word
_Peel_-garlick--it may be found in one of his _Directions to a
Painter_--but the passage in which it appears is scarcely fit for
quotation. The George of the couplet referred to was Albemarle, who had
been wounded during the fight in the part of his person which Hudibras
alludes to when he tells us that one wound there

"hurts honour more
Than twenty wounds laid on before."

Denham seems to compare Albemarle's wounded buttocks to a peeled onion! The
resemblance (to Denham) would account for his use of the word in this
instance; but it is pretty evident that the word was not coined by him. We
must, at least, give him credit for a witty application of it.

Carlisle.

_Collar of Esses_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.).--With reference to the suggestion in
No. 54., to give examples of effigies bearing the collar, I beg to mention
those at Northleigh Church, Oxon. The following extract is from the _Guide
to Neighbourhood of Oxford_:--

"In Northleigh church, beneath an arch between the chancel and a
chapel, is a fine perpendicular tomb, with two recumbent figures in
alabaster,--a knight in armour, with the Collar of SS; the lady with a
rich turban and reticulated head-dress, and also with the Collar of SS.
The figures are Lord and Lady Wilmot; and attached to the monument are
two small figures of angels holding shields of arms; on one is a spread
eagle, on the other three cockle shells, with an engrailed band."

JASPER.

_Filthy Gingram_ (Vol. ii., p. 467.).--The name "toad-flax" is evidently
put by mistake, in Owen's _Dictionary_, for "toad-stool," a fungus, the
_Agaricus virosus_ of Linnaeus. The common name in the North of England is
"poisonous toad-stool." It is a virulent poison. See * 248. 407, 408., in
Sowerby's _English Fungi_.

D.2.

Toad-flax, the yellow _Antirrhinum_, certainly does stink.

C.B.

_The Life and Death of Clancie, by E.S._ (Vol. ii., p. 375.).--There is a
copy in the Bodleian Library.

J.O.H.

"_Rab. Surdam_" (Vol. ii., p. 493.).--EDINENSIS. gives th