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KEMPS, the flower stalks of the ribwort plantain, A.S. 

 cempa, a warrior, Da. kcempe, a word peculiar to the 

 Northern counties, and more probably of Danish than Ang. 

 Sax. origin, alluding to the child's pastime of fighting them 

 against one another, a game that is known in Sweden also, 

 where they are called Kampar, Plantago lanceolata, L. 



KERNEL-WORT, from having kernels or tubers attached 

 to the roots, and being therefore supposed, on the doctrine 

 of signatures, to cure diseased kernels, or scrophulous glands 

 in the neck, Scrophularia nodosa, L. 



KIDNEY-VETCH, because " it shall prevayle much against 

 the strangury, and against the payne of the reynes." 

 Lyte, (b. i. ch. 7). Anthyllis vulneraria, L. 



KIDNEY-WORT, from a distant resemblance of its leaves 

 to the outline of a kidney, Umbilicus pendulinus, DC. 



KING'S CLOVER, from its M.Lat. name corona regia, royal 

 crown, " because," as Parkinson says, (Th. Bot. p. 720,) 

 " the yellowe flowers doe crown the top of the stalkes," as 

 with a chaplet of gold, Melilotus oflicmalis, L. 



KING'S CUP or COB, AS. copp, a head, from the resem- 

 blance of the unexpanded flower-bud, and of its double 

 variety, to a stud of gold, such as kings wore, Fr. bouton 

 d'or, Ranunculus acris and bulbosus, L. 



KING'S KNOB, see KING'S CUP. A.S. cncsp, a button, 

 Da. knap. 



KIPPER or KNIPPER NUT, called in Scotland knapparts, 

 from knap, a knob, and urt, wort, the heath-pea, from its 

 knotty tubers, Vicia Orobus, DC. 



KlSS-ME-ERE-I-RISE, KlSS-ME-BEHIND-THE-GARDEN-GATE, 



LOOK-UP-, or JUMP-UP-AND-KISS-ME, see PANSY. 



KISS-ME-TWICE-BEFORE-I-RISE, R. Turner. Bot. p. 223, 

 the fennel flower, Nigella damascena, L. 



KNAP-BOTTLE, from its inflated calyx, resembling a little 

 bottle, and snapping when suddenly compressed, Du. knap- 

 pen, crack, snap, Silene inflata, L. 



