The widespread use of the *word ramps by the southern mountaineers for the common and well-known Allium tricoccum is another instance of the survival of English dialect words in the more or less isolated communities of the Southern Appalachians. Dr. Roland M. Harper has just called to my attention the fact that this name is quite rare in North American botanical literature, which is somewhat surprising to one who has been accustomed to the popular use of the name since childhood. The name is not found in the first edition of Britton and Brown’s Illustrated Flora, (1896), Small’s Flora (1903), or Gray’s Manual, 7th edition (1908). One of the earliest references to it in botanical literature is in Millspaugh’s Flora of West Virginia (1913), but it also appears in the 2nd edition of the Illustrated Flora (1913) and in Small’s Mutual (1933), which indicates that those authors had later received some information concerning it.