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SEGGRUM, from its application as a vulnerary to newly- 

 cut rams, bulls, and colts, which in the North are called 

 seggrams and seggs. See STAGGERWORT. 



Senecio Jacobsea, L. 



SELF-HEAL, correctly so spelt, and not Slough-heal, for 

 reasons stated under this latter term. It meant that with 

 which one may cure one's self, without the help of a sur- 

 geon, to which effect Ruellius quotes a French proverb, 

 that " No one wants a surgeon who keeps Prunelle." See 

 Park. Th. Bot. p. 526. Prunella vulgaris, L. 



and also, for the same reason, Sanicula europsea, L. 



SENGREEN, A.S. sin, ever, and grene, green, from its 

 evergreen leaves, the houseleek, 



Sempervivum tectorum, L. 



SENVY, Fr. seneve, G. senf, L. sinapis, Gr. a-warn, 

 mustard, Brassica nigra, Boiss. 



SEPTFOIL, or SETFOIL, from its seven leaflets, Fr. sept, 

 and feuilles, Lat. in Apuleius, (c. 117,) septefolium, Gr. 

 7TTo<f>v\\ov, Potentilla Tormentilla, Sib. 



SERVICE-, or, as in Ph. Holland's Pliny more correctly 

 spelt, SERVISE-TREE, from L. cervisia, its fruit having from 

 ancient times been used for making a fermented liquor, a 

 kind of beer : 



" Et pocula laeti 

 Fermento atque acidis imitantur vitea sorbts." 



Yirg. Geor. iii. 379. 



Diefenbach remarks : (Or. Eur. 102) " bisweilen bedeutet 

 cervisia einen nicht aus Getreide gebrauten Trank ; " and 

 Evelyn tells us in his Sylva (ch. xv), that " ale and beer 

 brewed with these berries, being ripe, is an incomparable 

 drink." The Ceremsia of the ancients was made from 

 malt, and took its name, we are told by Isidore of 

 Seville, from Ceres, Cereris, but this has come to be used 

 in a secondary sense without regard to its etymological 

 meaning, just as in Balm-tea we use tea in the sense of an 



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