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old herbals used with the name of some animal prefixed, 

 as, e.g. that of the dog, fox, goat, or hare, Orchis, L. 



STKANGLE-TARE, a tare that strangles, 



Vicia lathyroides, L. 

 and also a plant that strangles a tare, 



Cuscuta europsea, L. 



STRAP-WORT, L. corrigwla, a little strap, dim. of L. cor- 

 rigia, so called from its trailing habit, 



Corrigiola littoralis, L. 



STRAWBERRY, A.S. streowberie, either from its straw-like 

 halms, or from their lying strown on the ground. Some 

 have supposed that the name is derived from the custom in 

 some parts of England to sell the wild fruit threaded on 

 grass-straws. But it dates from a time earlier than any at 

 which wild strawberries are likely to have been marketable. 



Fragaria vesca, L. 



STRAWBERRY CLOVER, from its round pink strawberry- 

 like heads of seed, formed by the inflated calyx, 



Trifolium fragiferum, L. 



STRAWBERRY-TREE, from the shape and colour of its 

 fruit, Arbutus Unedo, L. 



STUB WORT, from its growing about the stubs of hewn 

 trees, the wood-sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, L. 



STURTION, a corruption of L. nasturtium, a cress, a 

 popular name of a plant which from the flavour of its 

 leaves was by the old herbalists ranked with the cresses, 



Tropseolum majus, L. 



SUCCORY, Fr. chkoree, Gr. Ki^pV) the wild endive, too 

 often replaced by fraudulent dealers with dandelion roots, 



Cichorium Intybus, L. 



SULPHUR-WORT, from its roots being, according to Ge- 

 rarde (p. 1053), "full of a yellow sap, which quickly 

 waxeth hard and dry, smelling not much unlike brimstone, 

 called Sulphur," Peucedanum officinale, L. 



SUNDEW, a name explained by Lyte in the following 



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