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Rice : Brushwood. 



Robinlwod : The red campion (lychnis dioica) and the ragged- 

 robin (lychnis fos cuculi). 



Roman Jasmine : The syringa or mock-orange flower. 



Rattle-penny : The yellow rattle (rhinantlms cristagalli). See 

 Shackle-boxes. 



Rouets : Tufts of rough grass. 



Rough-leaf: A true leaf of a plant, in distinction from its 

 seed-leaves or cotyledons. 



Rundle-icood : The small sticks from the head of a tree ripped 

 of bark. The larger ones are called " lagwood," q.v.' 



Screeches : SAvifts. 



Shackle-boxes : The seed-vessels of the yellow rattle (rhinanthus 

 cristagalli). See Rattle-penny. 



Shepherdess : The yellow wag-tail. 



Shroiccrop : The shrew-mouse. [Note in Glossary : " The folk- 

 lore of Dorset is that if a shrew-mouse run over a man's foot it will 

 make him lame. Hence, in Hampshire, it is called the "over-runner." 

 Again in the Additional Glossary he says : " It may not seem 

 clear what a shrew-mouse has in common with a woman shrew. 

 The shrew-mouse gives a shrill shreaking (sic) sound, and I believe 

 the shrew is so-called from her shrill shreaking (sic) voice in 

 scolding."] 



Silgreen : The house-leek (semper vivum tectorum). Its leaves 

 are thought to be cooling and are used with cream for the blood. 



Single-castle : The orchis morio and mascula (Portland). (See 

 Giddy-gander). 



Sires : Garlic (allium schcenoprasum) used as a pot-herb. 



Skimps : The inner skin or husk of flax used for fuel in drying 

 it. 



Skitty : The water-rail (see Kitty-coot). 



Skiver-icood : The spindle-tree (euonymus Europoea) of which 

 skewers are made. 



Snags : The fruit of a species of black-thorn, smaller than sloes 

 (prunus spinosa). 



