Wednesday 8 February 2017


                 THE WOLF FART.


   Picked up a lovely bit of imformation the other day on the common
   puffball.

  Its latin name is 'lycoperdon', 'lyco is Latin for Wolf.
                                                       'perdon' is Greek for, to break wind.
   Thus 'Wolf fart".

   l suppose that means that 'perdon me' is taken from the Greek!

   Another name for this puffball is 'The Devils snuff box'.
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