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STAR- WORT, from the shape of the flower, 



Aster Tripolium, L. 



STAR OF BETHLEHEM, from its white stellate flowers, 

 like pictures of the star that indicated the birth of Jesus, 

 Ornithogalum umbellatum, L. 



STAR OF THE EARTH, from its leaves spreading on the 

 ground in star fashion, Plantago Coronopus, L. 



STAR OF JERUSALEM, It. girasole, turn-sun, its Italian 

 name familiarized into Jerusalem, the salsify, 



Tragopogon porrifolius, L. 



STARCH-CORN, from starch being made of it, 



Triticum Spelta, L. 



STARCH-WORT, from its tubers yielding the finest starch 

 for the large collars worn in Queen Elizabeth's reign, 



Arum maculatum, L. 



STARE, or STARR, Dan. star, or stdr-grds, Ic. stor, Sw. 

 starr, words meaning " stiff grass," as in Douglas's Virgil, 

 b. vi. 1. 870 : 



"rispis harsk and stare," 



a name applied to various sedges and coarse sea-side 

 grasses, more especially Carex arenaria, L. 



and Ammophila arundinacea, Host. 



STAVER-WORT, from being supposed to cure the stavers 

 or staggers in horses, Senecio Jacobsea, L. 



STAVESACRE, a plant that was once in great use for de- 

 stroying lice, but which with the gradual increase of cleanly 

 habits is become scarce in our gardens, L. staphisagria, Gr. 

 of Galen aa-Tafaaaypia, from aerra^t?, raisin, and arypta, 

 wild, referring to the similarity of its leaf to that of the 

 vine ; unless Galen's plant was an entirely different one, 

 for which ours has been mistaken ; 



Delphinium Staphisagria, L. 



STAY-PLOUGH, the rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis, L. 



STICKADOVE, a name corrupted from the officinal Lat. 

 flos stoechados, flower of the stoechas, a lavender so called 



