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POPULAR NAMES 



SWEET-BRIAR, a wild rose whose leaves are sweet-scented, 



Rosa rubiginosa, L. 



SWEET CHERVIL, or SWEET CICELY, from its agreeable 

 scent, Gr. trecrekt, Myrrhis odorata, Scop. 



SWEET FLAG, to distinguish it from the unscented flag, 

 or iris, Acorus Calamus, L. 



SWEET GALE, from its scent, Myrica Gale, L. 



SWEET JOHN, probably a fanciful name given to certain 

 varieties of pink to distinguish them from those called 

 Sweet Williams. They seem to have been the narrow- 

 leaved kinds. Dianthus barbatus, L. 



SWEET-PEA, a scented pea, Lathyrus odoratus, L. 



SWEET-SEDGE, or -SEG, a plant which, having sword- 

 blade leaves, was comprised under the general name of 

 Segs and Sedges, and fraudulently sold in shops for the 

 sweet cane or calamus aromaticus, 



Acorus Calamus, L. 



SWEET WILLIAM, from Fr. oeillet, L. ocellus, a little eye, 

 corrupted to Willy, and thence to William, in reference, 

 perhaps, to a popular ballad ; a name assigned by W. 

 Bulleyn (fol. 48), to the wallflower, but by later herbalists 

 to a species of pink. See WILLIAM. 



Dianthus barbatus, L. 



SWEET WILLOW, from its having the habit of the dwarf 

 willows, and sweet-scented foliage, the sweet gale, 



Myrica Gale, L. 



SWEETING, a sweet apple, as contrasted with the crab, 



Pyrus Malus, L. 



SWETH, L. Germ, of Turner's time Suitlauch, perhaps a 

 misprint of snitlauch, or, as it is given in a German edition 

 of Macer (ed. 1590), snithlauch, properly schnittlauch, a 

 garlick to be cropped and grow again, chives, 



Allium Schoanoprasum, L. 



SWINE'S-BANE, see SOWBANE. 



