222 POPULAR NAMES 



SQUIRREL TAIL, from the shape of the flower-spike, 

 Hordeum maritimum, With. 



SQUITCH, or QUITCH, A.S, civice, from, cwic, vivacious, 

 the couch-grass, so called from its tenacity of life, 



Triticum repens, and Agrostis stolonifera, L. 



STAB-WORT, the wood-sorrel, so called, according to Par- 

 kinson (Th. Bot. p. 747), " because it is singular good in 

 all wounds and stabbes into the body." By most authors 

 it is spelt stubwort. Oxalis acetosella, L. 



STAGGERWORT, usually understood to be so called from 

 curing the staggers in horses, but to judge from its 

 synonym Seggrum, and its being found in some works 

 spelt Staggwort, more probably derived from its applica- 

 tion to newly-castrated bulls called Seggs and Staggs, 



Senecio Jacobaea, L. 



STANDERWORT, or STANDERGRASS, Fl. standelkruid, G. 

 stendel-wurtz, Sw. standort, names of which it is needless 

 to unveil the meaning, but descriptive of a supposed effect 

 of the " Foul standergrass," suggested by its double tubers, 

 which, on the doctrine of signatures, indicate aphrodisiac 

 virtues, Orchis mascula, L. 



STAN MARCH, O.E. stane, stone, and march, parsley, a 

 translation of Gr. Trerpoo-eXtzw, the Alexander, 



Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. 



STAR- FRUIT, from the radiated star-like growth of its 

 seed-pods, Actinocarpus Damasonium, L. 



STAR-GRASS, a grassy-looking aquatic plant with stellate 

 leaves, Callitriche, L. 



STAR HYACINTH, from its open stellate flowers, 



Scilla verna, Hud. 



STAR-JELLY, the nostoc, a jelly-like alga popularly sup- 

 posed to be shed from the stars, Treinella Nostoc, L. 



STAR THISTLE, from its spiny involucre, resembling the 

 weapon called a morning star, Centaurea solstitialis, L. 



