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(4) Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre (Staple 
Fitzpaine). 
(5) Common Tormentil, Potentilla erecta 
(Barford. Wilts). 
(6) Wood Loosestrife, Lysimachia nemorum 
(Barford, Wilts). 
STARLIGHT. (1) Lesser Celandine, Ranunculus 
Ficaria (Crewkerne). 
(2) I have heard this name applied to the 
Herb Robert, Geranium Robertianum, by children 
in Yeovil and Mudford. 
STAR OF BETHLEHEM. (1) The usual English 
name for Ornithogalum umbellatum; the name is 
said to be due to the resemblance of the white 
star-like flowers to the pictures of the star that 
announced the birth of Christ. 
(2) A common name throughoat a great part 
of the district for the Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria 
Holostea. 
(3) Wood Anemone, Anemone nemorosa (East 
Somerset). ' 
(4) Scarlet Pinpernel, Anagallis arvensis (a 
Wincanton school-girl). 
(5) Correspondents at Canertoa and Willand 
(Devon) apply the aame to the St. John’s Wort, 
Hypericum. 
(6) Frequently applied to the greenhouse 
Cineraria. 
(7) A Taunton soxrespondent gives this as a 
Iccal name for the Passion-flower, Passiflora 
cerulea. 
STAR OF THE Woop. Correspondents at 
Dunster and Stocklaid (Devon) give we this as a 
1o-al name fcr the Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria 
Holostea. 
STARRY Evers. The Star of Bethlehem, 
Ornithogalum umbellatum (Stalbridge). 
Srars. (1) The Herb Robert, Geranium 
Robertianum (school-girls at South Petherton). 
See STAR-LIGHT. 
(2) Lilac, Syringa vulgaris (a school-boy at 
Thorae St. Margaret). 
(3) Clustered Bell-flower, Campanula glomerata 
{N.W. Wilts). 
(4) The Cineraria (South Petherton). 
Star Tuistis. (1) The true Star Thistle is 
Coes Calcttrapa, which is very rare in Somer- 
set. 
(2) The name is commonly applicd in the 
Wincanton district to the Marsh Plume Thistle, 
Cnicus palustris. 
(3) Several schosol-childrea at Dunster give 
it as a local name for the Knapweed, Centaurea. 
STARWORT. (1) Any plant of the genus 
Aster, which in:ludes the Michaelmas Daisy. 
(2) Any plaat of the genus Stellaria, which 
includes the Stitchworts and Chickweeds. 
