128 POPULAR NAMES 



KNAP-WEED, KNOP-, or KNOB-WEED, Da. knopurt, from 

 its knob-like heads, A.S. cncep, L.Ger. knoop, Da. knop, 

 G. knopf, Centaurea nigra, L. 



KNAWEL, G. knauel or knduel, a hank of thread, from 

 its spreading stems, Scleranthus, L. 



KNEE-HOLM, -HULVER, or -HOLLY, A.S, cneorv-holen, a 

 shrub referred to the holms or hollies on account of its 

 evergreen prickly leaves, and deriving the prefix knee from 

 confusion, under the name of daphne, and mctoriola, with 

 Lat. cneorum, a plant used in chaplets, as were some 

 species of this genus. See Pliny, N.H. xxi. 9. 



Kuscus aculeatus, L. 



KNIGHT'S SPURS, the larkspur, from its long, slender, 

 projecting nectaries, Delphinium, L. 



KNIGHT'S-WORT, -WOUND-WORT, or -PONDWORT, from its 

 sword-like leaves, Stratiotes aloides, L. 



KNIT-BACK, L. confirma, from being used as a strength- 

 ener or restorative, the comfrey, 



Symphytum officinale, L. 



KNOB-TANG, Da. tang, sea-weed, and knob, A.S. cncep, a 

 word connected with many others beginning with kn, kl, 

 gn, and gl, in all the Germanic languages, and signifying 

 a lump, or something knotted and hard, 



Fucus nodosus, L. 

 KNOLLES, turnips, Du. knol, Da. knold, a tuber, 



Brassica Rapa, L. 

 KNOT-BERRY, from the knotty joints of the stems, 



Rubus Chamsemorus, L. 



KNOT-GRASS, or KNOT-WORT, the centinode, from its 

 trailing jointed stems and grass-like leaves. The " hinder- 

 ing knotgrass" of Shakspere, (M.N.D. iii. 2), was pro- 

 bably so called from the belief that it would stop the growth 

 of children, as in Beaumont and Fletcher's Coxcomb, A. ii. : 



""We want a boy 

 Kept under for a year with milk and knotgrass." 



Polygonum aviculare, L. 



