Thanks again for all replies and this one has taught me something new about
Google.

Time was when the words being in the order typed without break would bring a hit
to the top of the list reliably. "Robin run in the hole" does inded find this -
whereas now without the quotes it's not on the first page of hits...

Having said that the quote I was told about is Victorian but I will ask whether
an animal is really ruled out by the context !

--- In UKBotany@yahoogroups.com, "Hatton, Keith" <kjhatton@...> wrote:
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> A google search brings up this reference in The Welchmans Last Petition of
1642
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> http://eebo.cica.es/datos1/web.e0002/115954/index.pdf
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> The reference is on the 2nd page of the document and it sounds to me like a
ref to a small animal, maybe a rabbit,
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> Keith
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> ________________________________
> From: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UKBotany@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Malcolm Ogilvie
> Sent: 03 July 2009 13:42
> To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [UKBotany] Victorian wild flower name
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> It's not indexed in Flora Britannica.
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> Malcolm
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> In message
<375913.99277.qm@...<mailto:375913.99277.qm%40web25501.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>>,
Colin Jacobs
> <benacre2001@...<mailto:benacre2001%40yahoo.co.uk>> writes
> >Maybe something in Flora Brittanica? have you tried Googling the name?
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> > Colin Jacobs.
> >Professional Writer, Naturalist and Photographer.
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> >I photograph them because
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> >From: Phil Luke <Phil@...<mailto:Phil%40boxlodge.demon.co.uk>>
> >To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com<mailto:UKBotany%40yahoogroups.com>
> >Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2009 12:12:40
> >Subject: Re: [UKBotany] Victorian wild flower name
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> >Asked a local history friend but all I have had from him so far is;
> >"Nothing in the Rev. C.A. Johns classic 'Flowers of the Field'"
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> >Phil
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: John Crellin
> >To: UKBotany@yahoogroup s.com
> >Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:07 PM
> >Subject: [UKBotany] Victorian wild flower name
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> >I've been asked by someone doing some research what "Robin Run In the
> >Hole" - clearly from a the context a wildflower - might have been ?
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> >Does anyone know of any sources for this sort of infomation ?
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> >John Crellin
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