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(3) Lunary or Honesty, Lunaria biennis 
(Wimborne). 
SILVER PENNIES. Lunary or Honesty, Lunaria 
biennis. 
SILVER SHEKELS. Quaking Grass, Briza media 
(Weston Zoyland). 
SILVER FERN. The Silver-weed, Potentilla 
Anserina, from its silvery fern-like foliage. 
SILVER KNEW NoTHING. The Head-Master of 
Shoscombe Schools gives me this as the commonest 
local name for the Scarlet Elf-cup Fungus, 
Geopyxis coccinea; and Miss Ida Roper tells me 
the same name is used at Clutton. This Fungus 
is often called in Somerset SOLDIERS’ CAPS or 
JERUSALEM STARS. See SILVER SIXPENCES. 
SILVER-LEAVED TREE. (1] The Silver Birch 
Betula alba (school-children at Paulton). 
(2) The Abele or White Poplar, Populus alba, 
(West Somerset). 
SILVER SIXPENCES. The Scarlet Elf-cup 
Fungus, Geopyxis coccinea (school-children at 
Mells). See SILVER KNEW NOTHING. 
SILVER SLIPPERS. Nigella damascena, com- 
monly known as LOVE-IN-A-MIstT or DEVIL-IN-A- 
Busa (Litton). 
SIMPLER’S Joy. An old name for the Vervain, 
Verbena officinalis, which I gather from a schoo]- 
boy at Martock is still sometimes used in that 
district. 
SINGLE CASTLE. His Honour J. S. Udal gives 
this as a local name at Portland for both the 
Early Purple Orchis, O. mascula, and the Green- 
winged Orchis, O. morio. 
SINGLE GHost. The Early Purple Orchis, 
O. mascula (Crewkerne, East Lambrook, and 
Trowbridge). 
SINGLE-Guss. The Early Purple Orchis, O. 
mascula (Jennings, Rev. W. P. Williems, and Rev. 
J. Coleman). 
SINGLE GUsSIES. A correspondent of Somerset 
aid Dorset Notes a id Querics ia 1893 gave this as 
an old nare at Hiaton St. George for the Bluebell, 
Scilla non-seripta. 
SINGREEN. The MHouse-leek, Sempervivum 
lectorum. See SELGREEN. 
SINNEGAR. A common name in Mid and Hast 
Somerset fo: the Stock, Matthiola incana. 
SiTHES or SIVES. Chives; a kind of Garlic, 
Allium Schenoprasum, used as a pot herb. Mr. 
F. W. Mathews describes it as a cultivated 
bulbous perennial with slender rush-like leaves, 
much less “‘tasty”’ than the ordinary Garlic, 
A. sativum. See SEAVES. 
