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Sweet Betsy (or Berry). Red Spur Valerian, 
Kentranthus ruber (Axbridge and Chettle, Dorset). 
SwEET CHESTNUT. The usual name _ for 
Castanea vesca, to distinguish it from the Horse- 
chestnut, 4 sculus Hippocastanum, which is very 
bitter. 
SwEET Hay. Meadow Sweet, Spirea Ulmaria 
(Chettle, Dorset). See NEw Mown Hay (2). 
SWEET SUCKERS. Comfrey, Symphytum 
officinale (Horton). See SUCKERS. 
SWEETHEARTS. (1) Burs of the Goose-grass 
or Cleavers, Galium Aparine, from the way in 
which they stick to one’s clothes. Names 2, 3, 
and 4 are al] given for the same reasoa. 
(2) Burs of the Burdock, Arctium minus. 
(3) The Woodruff, Asperula odorata. 
(4) Agrimony, Agrimonia Eupatoria (Mid and 
East Somerset). 
(5) The Twayblade, Listera ovata (Staple 
Fitzpaine). 
(6) Great Mrilein, Verbascum Thapsus (Culm- 
head). 
(7) The Wild Arum or Cuckoo-yint, Arum 
maculatum (Stogursey). 
(8) Greater  Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea 
(school-children at. Oakhill). 
SwEET Nancy. _ (1) Greater €titchwort, 
Stellaria Holostea (Castle Cary district). 
(2) Narcissus (Crewkerne district). Mr. T. W. 
Cowan gives me the name of the particular species 
as Narcissus biflorus fl. pl. 
SwEET Nout. See SwEET CHESTNUT. 
SwEET Nuts. Common Yarrow or Milfoil, 
Achillea Millefolium (Leigh, Dorset). 
SWEET SuCKLE. Honey-suckle or Woodbine, 
Lonicera Periclymenum (Stoke-ander-Ham). 
SwzeEtT SULTAN. The general English name for 
the garden plant Centaurea moschata. 
SwEET THomaAs. The Narzissus (Luxborough). 
SWINE’s Cress. (1) A general English name 
for Coronopus procumbens. Known also as 
Wart-cress, but Dr. Watson tells me the latter 
name is better restricted to the other British 
species of Coronopus, C. didymus. 
(2) Common Nipplewort, Lapsana communis. 
SwIne’s Grass. Common Knotgrass, Poly- 
gonum aviculare. 
SWINE’s SnNoutT. The Dandelion, Taraxacum 
officinale, from the form of its receptacle. 
Sworp Grass. (1) A coarse Marsh Grass, 
Glyceria aquatica, often called DAGGERS or 
WITHERS. 
(2) Mr. T. W. Cowan tells me this is a common 
name for the Striped Ribbon Grass, Phalaris 
