POPULAR AND LOCAL NAMES OF WEEDS 223 



wife's darning needles, old woman's needle, pink needle, 

 poke needle, pook needle, poukenel, pound needle, powk 

 needle, puck needle, shepherd's needle, stikpyle, tailor's 

 needles, throck-needle, venus'-needle, wild parsley. 



Scleranthus annuus, L. German knotgrass, knawel, knotgrass, 

 parsley pert or piert. 



Senebiera coronopus, Poir. Buck's-horn, cress (swine's or wart), 

 grass (hog, sow), hartshorn, herb Eve, herb ive, star of the 

 earth, wartwort. 



Senecio jacobcza, L. Agreen, benweed, bindweed, binweed, 

 booin, bowens, bowlochs, bunnels, bunwede, cammock, 

 cankerweed, cheadle-dock, cowfoot, cradle-dock, cushag, 

 dock (kadle, kettle), dog-standard, fairies' horse, fellon- 

 weed, fizz-gigs, fleedod, fleenurt, flydod, grundswaith, 

 James' weed, James' wort, keddle dock, marefart, muggert, 

 ragged Jack, ragged Robin, rag weed, rag wort, St. James' 

 wort, scrape-clean, seggrom, seggy, sigrim, stagger-wort, 

 staner-wort, staver-wort, stinking alisander, stinking Billy, 

 stinking Davie, stinking elshinder, stinking-weed, swine's 

 cress, swine's grass, tansy, weeby, yack-yard, yark-rod, 

 yellow ellshinders, yellow-weed. 



Senecio vulgaris, L. Birdseed, chickenweed, chinchone, 

 grinning swallow, grinsel, groundsel, grunsel, grundsel, 

 grunnishule, sencion, simson, swichen. 



Serratula tinctoria, L. Saw-wort. 



Sherardia arvensis, L. Allison, dodger, field madder, herb 

 sherard, madderlen, spurwort. 



Silene anglica, L. English catchfly, 



Silene inflata, L. Adder-and-snake plant, ben, bird's-eggs, 

 bladder campion, bletherweed, bull rattle, clapweed, 

 cowbell, cowcracker, cowmack, cowpaps, crackers, frothy 

 poppy, knap-bottle, rattle-bags, snappers, spading poppy, 

 thunder bolts, white bottle, white cockle. 



Silene noctiflora, L. Night-flowering catchfly. 



Sisymbrium officinale, L. Bank cress, crambl ing-rocket, 

 hedge mustard, hedgeweed, lucifer matches, scrambling 

 rocket. 



Solanum dulcamara, L. Awfood, belladonya, bittersweet, 

 blue bindweed, deadly nightshade, dogwood, dwale, 

 fellon-wood, fellonwort, mad dog's berries, nightshade 

 (bittersweet, wood), poison-berry, poison-flower, poisonous 

 tea plant, pushion berry, robin-run-the-hedge, skaw-coo, 

 snake-berry, snake's poison-food, sweet bitter, terri- 

 diddle, terrydivle, tether devil, woody night-shade. 



