222 WEEDS OF FARM LAND 



Rhinanthus crista-galli, L. Clock, cock -grass, cock's-comb, 

 cow-wheat, dog's siller, fiddle-cases, gowk's sixpence, 

 grass (penny, rattle), hen pen, henny penny, hen's combs, 

 honeysuckle, horse pens, locusts, meadow rattle, money, 

 money grass, pence, penny rattle, penny weed, rattle, 

 rattle-bags, rattle-box, rattle-penny, rochlis, rottle-penny, 

 snaffles, yellow meadow lousewort, yellow rattle. 



Rumex. Dock, docken, doodykye, phorams or phorans, red 

 dock. 



Rumex acetosa, L. Bread-and-cheese, cock sorrell, dock (sharp 

 or sour), donkey's oats, French sourock, green-sauce, 

 green sorrell, lammie sourrocks, ranty-tanty (?), red shank, 

 sallet, sarock, sooracks, sorrel, sorrel (green, sow), sorrow, 

 sourack, sour docken, sour grass, sour leek, sour-sabs or 

 sour-suds, sour sauce, sour sodge, sourocks, Tom Thumb's 

 thousand fingers. 



Rumex acetosella, L. Bread-and-cheese, cuckoo's meat, cuckoo's 

 sorrel, lammie sourocks, ranty-tanty, sheep's sorrel, 

 sheep's sourack, sooracks, soorocks, sourocks, sour dock, 

 sour leek. 



Rumex conglomerate \ Murr. Clustered dock. 



Rumex crispus, L. Curled dock, dockum. 



Rumex obtusifolius, L. Batter dock, broad dock, butter dock, 

 celery-seed, cushy-cows, docken, kettle dock, red shank, 

 smair dock. 



Rumex sanguineus^ L. Bloodwort, bloody dock, dock. 



Scabiosa arvensis, L. Bachelor's buttons, billy button, black 

 soap, blue buttons, blue caps, blue men, broadweed, 

 cardies, clod-weed, clog-weed, curl-doddy, Egyptian rose, 

 gipsy flower, gipsy rose, lady's cushion, pincushion, 

 scabious, scabridge, scabril. 



Scabiosa succisa, L. Bachelor's buttons, blue-ball, blue-bannets, 

 blue bonnets, blue buttons, blue-caps, blue-heads, blue- 

 kiss, blue-tops, bunds, bundweed, carl-doddie, curl-doddy, 

 devil's-bit, devil's-bit scabious, fire-leaves, forbete, forebit, 

 forebitten more, gentlemen's buttons, hardhead, hog-a- 

 back, lamb's ears, more-herbyw, ofbit, remcope, stinking 

 Nancy, woolly hardhead. 



Scandix pecten, L. Adam's needle, beggar's needle, chervil 

 (needle or wild), clock-needle, comb (lady's, shepherd's, or 

 venus's), coombs, crake-needle, crow-needle, crowpecks, 

 deil's or devil's darning-needle, darning needles, deil's 

 elshin, elshins, ground enell, hedge-hog, needle, old 



