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Snow Toss. The Guelder Rose, Viburnum 
Opulus. 
SNUFF-BOx. A Puff-ball fungus, Lycoperdon, 
when fully ripe and giving off its spores when 
touched. 
SNUFF CANDLE. Yellow Dead-Nettle, Lamium 
Galeobdolon (Calne, Wilts). 
SOAPLEAVES. A correspondent at Batcombe 
gives me this as a local name for the Water 
Figwort, Scrophularia aquatica, and says that if 
rubbed between the hands the leaves produce a 
lather not unlike that of soap, but Dr. Watson 
tells me the soapiness of the Figwort is very slight, 
and suggests my correspondent has _ possibly 
confused the piant with the Soapwort, Saponaria 
officinalis. See Gipsy’s SOAP. 
SOD-APPLE. Great Hairy Willow Herb 
Epilobium hirsutum, from its apple-like smell when 
crushed (N.W. Wilts). 
SogER. His Honour J. S. Udal gives this as a 
Dorset name for the Military Orchis, Orchis 
militaris. See SOLDIER. , 
SOLDIER Boys. Red Spur Valerian, Kentran- 
thus ruber (Mr. W. C. Baker, late of Maunsel). 
SoLpDIERS. A name given to a number of 
different plants, but apparently most commonly 
in this district to 
(1) The stems and seed-heads of the Lamhb’s- 
tongue Plantain. Plantago lanceolata. Children 
gather these and make them fight until the head 
of one or the other is knocked off. See Cocx’s 
Heaps and FIGHTING COocKs. 
(2) <A fairly common name for the Red Poppy, 
Papaver Rheas. A Wiltshire correspondent 
wrote me some years ago: ‘“‘A field of these is 
supposed to resemble an army of ‘ Red-coats.’ 
The name survives in spite of a khaki army.” 
(3) The name is given, particularly in Dorset, 
to several species of Orchis. (See SovER.) A 
number of my Dorset correspondents apply it to 
the Early Purple Orchis, O. mascula; a few to 
the Spotted Orchis, O. maculata (including one 
at Winsham), and a correspondent at Charmouth 
applies it to the Bee Orchis, Ophrys apifera. 
(4) The Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea (Dorset). 
(5) Wild Arum or Cuckoo-pint, Arum macula- 
tum (Wincanton). 
(6) The Herb Robert, Geranium Robertianum 
(Devon). 
_ (7) Common Sorrel, Rumex Acetosa (Martock), 
doubtless from the reddish colour of its stems, 
petals, and sepals. 
(8) Crimson Clover, Trifolium incarnatum 
(Taunton). 
(9) A school-boy at Furley gives this as a. 
local name for the Mat-grass, Nardus stricta. 
