224 POPULAR NAMES 



from growing on the Hyeres, islands opposite Marseilles, 

 and called by the ancients Stoechades, from standing in a 

 row, Gr. o-rot^a?, Lavandula Stoechas, L. 



STINKHORN, from its shape and offensive odour, 



Phallus impudicus, L. 



STITCH-WORT, in a thirteenth century MS. in Mayer and 

 Wright, p. 140, spelt Stich-wurt, and given as the transla- 

 tion of " Valeriane," a plant used to cure the sting, G. stick, 

 of venemous reptiles ; but in later works explained as 

 curing the stitch in the side. See Gerarde, p. 140. 



Stellaria Holostea, L. 



STOCK-GILLIFLOWER, now shortened to STOCK, from 

 stock, the trunk or woody stem of a tree or shrub, added 

 to Gilliflower to distinguish it from plants of the Pink 

 tribe, called, from their scent, Clove- Gilliflowers, 



Matthiola incana, L. 



STOCK-NUT, from its growing on a stick, G. stock, and 

 not on a tree like the walnut, Corylus Avellana, L. 



STONE BASIL, a basil that grows among stones, 



Calamintha Clinopodium, Benth. 



STONE-BREAK, G. steinbrech, from L. saxifraga, so named 

 from its supposed power of rending rocks, and thence em- 

 ployed to break stone in the bladder, Saxifraga, L. 



STONE-CROP, from crop, a top, a bunch of flowers, a cima, 

 and stone; being a plant that grows on stone walls in dense 

 tufts of yellow flowers ; Sedum acre, L. 



STONE-FERN, from its growth on stone walls, 



Ceterach officinarum, W. 



STONE-HOT, or STONNORD, corruptions of stone-wort, and 



STONE-HORE, or'STONOR, of stone-orpine, (see ORPINE,) 



Sedum reflexum, L. 



STONE-WORT, from calcareous deposits on its stalk, 



Chara, L. 



STONES, a translation of Gr. op%*9, a name given to 

 several orchideous plants from their double tubers, and in 



