An unusual common name for a familiar Appalachian wild flower came to light recently through an inquiry from Mrs. Ronald Neal, Redmond, Oregon, to Earl L. Core, relative to a plant she had known as “Tangle-Gut” while living as a young girl in Williamson, W. Va. I had also heard this name under rather unusual circumstances. Robert Chapman and I were on Miller’s Creek, Mingo County, W. Va., admiring the profusion of the beautiful pink-veined flowers of the broad-leaved spring beauty (Claytonia caroliniana) when some mountain men came along with bags in their hands, plucking the leaves of the spring beauty and putting them in bags. When we asked them what they were going to do with it, they replied: “We’re gathering tangle-gut to take home to kill with grease and eat for salad.”