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(2) Mr. T. W. Cowan tells me that in Suffolk 
the name STONE-WEED is given to the Knotgrass, 
Polygonum aviculare, and he thinks it probable 
that it is really to this plant, and not to the 
Persicaria, that the name is applied in this 
district. 
StrorRKs. The Herb Robert, Geranium Robert- 
danum (L2igh, Dorset). See STorK’s BILL. 
SrorK’s Bint. This is the general English 
name for plants of the genus Hrodium, but 
correspondents in several parts of the district 
give it as a local name for the Herb Robert, 
Geranium Robertianum, which is a Crane’s-bill. 
See STORKS. 
STtoRY OF THE Cross. The Passion-flower, 
Passiflora cerulea (Camerton). 
STORY-TELLERS. The Barren Strawberry, 
Potentilla sterilis (school-children at Thorne St. 
Margaret). 
STRANGLE-WEED. (1) Any plant of the 
Dodder family, Cuscuta. 
(2) Any plant of the Broomrape family, 
Orobanche. 
(3) The Greater Convolvulus, Calystegia 
sepium (Dowlish Wake). 
STRAP-GRASS. Couch-grass, Agropyron repens 
(Wareham). 
STRAWBERRY GERANIUM. The old-fashioned 
pot-plant Sazxifraga sarmentosa, because its 
runn-rs and shoots are like those of a strawberry ; 
it was formerly so commonly grown in cottage 
windows as to be called the PooR MAN’s GER- 
ANIUM. See AARON’S BEARD (2). 
STRAWBERRY PLANT. (1) The Wild Straw- 
berry, Fragaria vesca. 
(2) The Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis 
(Devon). 
(3) Same as STRAWBERRY GERANIUM. 
STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE. Same as STRAW- 
BERRY GERANIUM. 
STRAWBERRY TREE. Arbutus Unedo ; so called 
from the colour and shape of its fruit. 
STRAW-MOTE. A stalk of grass (Rev. Wm. 
Barnes). 
STRIAL. Couch-grass, Agropyron repens (Ware- 
ham). See STROIL. 
STRIKE. Yellow Toad-flax, Linaria vulgaris 
{Miss Ella Ford, Melptash). 
STRING Foy. ‘Wild Clover’? (Minchead 
school-girls). 
STRIP FOR Strip. Wild Succory or Chicory, 
on Intybus (a South Petherton school- 
girl). 
