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DOCK, FIDDLE-, from the shape of its leaves, 



Rumex pulcher, L. 



ROUND-, the common mallow, still called so in the 

 charm that is used by children who have been stung with 

 nettles, and alluded to by Chaucer in Troilus and Cressida 

 (b. iv. sb. 62) : " Nettle in, dock out." 



Malva sylvestris, L. 

 SHARP-, the sorrel, from its acidity, 



Rumex Acetosa, L. 



VELVET-, Verbascum Thapsus, L. 



DODDER, the plural of Fris. dodd, a bunch, Du. dot, 

 hampered thread, from its resemblance to bunches of 

 threads entangled in the plants on which it grows, 



Cuscuta, L. 



DOGBERRY, or DOG-CHERRY, the fruit of the Dogwood 

 tree, misunderstood as referring to the quadruped. See 

 DOGWOOD. Cornus sanguinea, L. 



DOG'S CHAMOMILE, a spurious or wild kind, 



Matricaria Chamomilla, L. 



DOG-GRASS, called so, Tabernaernontanus tells us, " sin- 

 temal sich die Hunde, wenn sie Massleid haben, damit 

 purgiren ;" and R. Turner (Bot. p. 89) " It is called in 

 Latin gramen caninum, because dogs eat the grass when 

 they are sick." Triticum caninum, Huds. 



DOG'S MERCURY, or DOG'S COLE, a spurious kind, to dis- 

 tinguish it from the so-called English Mercury, 



Mercurialis perennis, L. 

 DOG'S ORACH, a stinking kind, 



Chenopodium olidum, Sm. 



DOG'S PARSLEY, G. KWCLTTLOV, a worthless weed, parsley 

 for a dog, JSthusa Cynapium, L. 



DoG-RoSE, /cvvoppoSos and /cvvoaftaros, a wild kind, so 

 called from its want of scent and beauty, Rosa canina, L. 



DOG'S-TAIL-GRASS, from its spike being fringed on one 

 side only, Cynosurus cristatus, L. 



