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small ache or parsley, as compared with the If 



or great parsley, olus atruin. See Turner's Nomenclator, 



A.D. 1548, and Gerarde. See also ACHE. 



Apium graveolens, L. 

 SMOKE-WOOD, from boys smoking its porous stalks, 



Clematis Vitalba, L. 

 SMUT, from its resemblance to the smut on kettles, 



Uredo caries, L. 



SNAG, in Cotgrave, and in Lyte (b. vi. ch. 47), the sloe, 

 from its branches being full of small snags or projections, 



Prunus spinosa, L. 



SNAIL CLOVER, from the spiral convolutions of its 

 legumes, the lucerne genus, Medicago, L. 



SNAKE'S HEAD, from the checkered markings on the 

 petals like the scales on a snake's head, 



Fritillaria Meleagris, L. 



SNAKE'S TAIL, from its cylindrical spikes, the sea hard- 

 grass, Ophiurus incurvatus, RB. 



SNAKE-WEED, the bistort, from its writhed roots, 



Polygonum Bistorta, L. 



SNAP-DRAGON, from its corolla resembling the snap or 

 snout, Du. sneb, G. schnabel, of some animal. It means, 

 perhaps, " Snap, dragon ! " Antirrhinum majus, L. 



SNEEZE-WORT, from the powder made from it causing 

 to sneeze, L. sternutamentoria, Gr. Trrappua), 



Achillaea Ptarmica, L. 



SNOW-BALL TREE, from its round balls of white flowers, 

 the Guelder rose, a cultivated variety of the water-elder, 



Viburnum Opulus, L. 



SNOWBERRY, from the white colour and snowlike pulp 

 of its fruit, Symphoria racemosa, Ph. 



SNOW-DROP, from G. schneetropfen, a word that in its 

 usually accepted sense of a drop of snow is inconsistent ; 

 for a dry powdery substance, like snow, cannot form a 

 drop. In fact, the drop refers not to icicles, but to the 



