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Rye-grass, Lolium perenne (S.W. Wilts). See 
Dors My MoTHER WANT ME? and LovE MB, 
LovE ME Not (2). 
SOLEMN BELLS OF Sopom. Common Fritillary 
or Snake’s Head, Fritillaria Meleagris (Rampi- 
sham, Dorset). See DrRoopInG and MOURNFUL 
BELL oF Sopom. 
SolomMon’s SEAL. The general English name 
for Polygonatum multiflorum. 
SON BEFORE THE FATHER. An old country 
name for the Great Hairy Willow Herb, Epilobium 
hirsutum, because as Lyte explained long 
ago, “The long husks in which the seede is 
contained do come forthe and waxe great before 
that the floure openeth.’”? The only correspondent 
who has sent me this name as still being used in 
the district is Mrs. Day, of North Petherton. 
Sops In WINE. The Clove Pink or Carnation, 
Dianthus Caryophyllus, from its flowers being 
used to flavour wine. Chaucer wrote :— 
‘“ And many a clove gilofre 
And note muge to put in ale, 
Whether it be moist or stale.” 
The name was also given to a smaller kind of 
single Gilliflower or Pink. A Bradford-on-Tone 
school-boy gives it as a local name for the Pink, 
and several correspondents in different parts of 
the county as a local name for “ Jiloffers.”’ 
SORCERER'S VIOLET. An old country name for 
the Lesser Periwinkle, Vinca minor. 
Sour Dock, Doc, or Duck. Common Sorrel, 
Rumex Acetosa. Eaten by children. 
Sour GRaBs. (1) Common Sorrel, as above. 
(2) The Crab Apple, Pyrus malus. ‘ 
Sour LEAVES. Common Sorrel, Rumex Acetosa 
(Shoscombe). 
SouR SALLY. The Wood Sorrel, Ozalis 
Acetosella (Muchelney). 
Souk Sap. Wood Sorrel, as above (Shute, 
Devon). 
Sour TREFOIL. A Taunton correspondent 
gives me this as a local name for the Wood Sorrel, 
Oxalis Acetosella. 
Sow-BANE. Mr. J. W. White, in his ‘ Bristol 
Flora,” gives this as a local name for the Nettle- 
leaved Goos:-foot, Chenopodium murale. 
Sow FLoweER. Sow Thistle, Sonchus oleraceus 
(N.W. Wilts). 
Sow’s Ears. Broad-leaved Saxifrage (? Sazi- 
fraga crassifolia or uwmbrosa) (Ilton). 
SPALLIARD. An espalier-trained fruit tree. 
SPAR (or SPARROW) GRAsSs. Asparagus. 
