224 WEEDS OF FARM LAND 



Solanum nigrum, L. Black nightshade, duscle, garden night- 

 shade, hound's-berry, mixplenton, morel, petty morel. 



Sonchus arvensis, L. Corn sowthistle, dindle, gutweed, hog- 

 weed, rosemary, swine thistle, tree sow thistle, langley 

 beef. 



Sonchus oleraceus, L. Dindle, hare's colewort, hare's lettuce, 

 hare's palace, hare's thistle, milk thistle, milk-weed, milky 

 dashel, milky dickies, milky tassel, St. Mary's seed, sow- 

 dingle, sow thistle, swine thistle, swinies, thowthystylle. 



Spergula arvensis, L. Beggar- weed, bottle brush, cowquake, 

 dodder, dother, farmer's ruin, franke, granyagh, lousy 

 grass, make-beggar, mountain flax, perry, pick pocket, 

 pick purse, poverty weed, sandgrass, sandweed, spurry, 

 toad flax, yarr, yarrel, yawr, yur. 



Spircea fitipendula, L. Dropwort, fillyfindillan, lady's ruffles, 

 meadow-sweet, walwort (?). 



Spircea ulmaria, L. Bittersweet, bridewort, courtship-and- 

 matrimony, goat's beard, harif, honey-sweet, maid of the 

 meadow, maid-sweet, meadow-soot, meadow-sweet, mead- 

 wort, my lady's belt, queen-of-the-meadow, sweet hay. 



Stachys arvensis, L. Field woundwort. 



Stachys betonica, Benth. Betayne, betony, bidney, bishopswort, 

 Vetoyn, wild hop, wood betony. 



Stachys palustris, L. Clown's all-heal, clown's woundwort, 

 cock-head, dead-nettle, hound's-tongue, marsh woundwort, 

 rough weed, runch, sheep's brisken, swine arnut, swine's 

 maskert 



Stellaria graminea, L. Heath speedwell, star-wort. 



Stellaria medea, L. Chickenweed, chickenwort, chickweed, 

 chuckenwort, cickenwort, craches, cuckenwort, flewort, 

 hen's inheritance, maruns, tongue grass, white bird's-eye, 

 winter-weed. 



Taraxacum vulgare, Lam. Bitterwort, blowball, blower, 

 canker, cankerwort, clock, crow-parsnip, dandelion, dente- 

 lion, dindle, doon-head-clock, fortune-teller, gowan (horse, 

 witch, yellow), grumsel, Irish daisy, lion's teeth, male, 

 milk gowan, monkshead, one-o'clocks, pee-a-bed, pismires, 

 piss-abed, priest's crown, stink davie, swine's snout. 



Thlaspi arvense, L. Boor's mustard, bowyer's mustard, churl's 

 mustard, cress (penny or wild), dish mustard, mithridate 

 mustard, treacle mustard, treaclewort. 



Tragopogon pratensis, L. Buck's-beard, gait-berde, goat's 

 beard, go-to-bed-at-noon, Jack-by-the-hedge, John-go-to- 



