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A DICTIONARY OF 
Kite-kin. The flowers of various species of Salix. — Lyte. See 
Chatton, 
Kitty Keys. See Kite-keys. 
Kitty-run-the-streets. Viola tricolor, L. — Kent (Folkestone). 
Kit Willow. NUamp. ‘The almond-leaved willow. Morton.’ 
Sternb. Salix amygdalina, L. 
Kix. (1) ‘ The same as Kex.’ Hal. See Keck. 
(2) See Kecksies, Winter. 
Klote. ‘ The same as Clote."* Hal. See Clote. 
Knap. Flowers of Trifolium pratense, L. — Dors. Agriculture of 
Dorset. 
Knap-bottle. Silene inflata, L. — Park. Theatr. ‘ Sic dictum quod 
folliculus qui semina continet, si manus dorso allidatur, strepitum 
edit, et quia figura utrem aliquo modo refert.’ Skinner. Prior, p. 127. 
Knappers. Fruit of Quercus Rohur, L. — N. Scotl. Jamieson. 
Knapperts, or Knapparts. Lathyrus macrorrliizus, Wimm. — 
Mearns. ; N. Scotl. Jamieson ; Belfast, Flora Belfastiensis (Knaperty). 
Cfr, Gnapperts and Napperty. ‘ From knap, a knob, and urt, wort, 
from its knotty tubers.’ Prior, p. 127, where the name is erroneously 
assigned to Vicia Orohiis, DC. 
Knapperty, Sheep’s. Potentilla Tormentilla, Sibth. — Belfast, Flora 
Belfastiensis. 
Knapweed. Centaurea nigra, L. — Ger. Prior, p. 128. 
[Knapwell. A misprint for Knawel which has appeared in all the 
later editions of Babington’s Manual of British Botany.] 
Knavery. Narthecium ossifragum, L. — ‘I have had intelligence 
from my good friend Doctor Anthony Salter of Exeter, that he having 
found it in some places neare unto him, could understand of the coun- 
trey people no other name thereof, or propertie appropriate unto it 
but Knavery, which whether they named it so in knavery, or knew 
any use of knavery in it, I neyther can learne nor am much inquisi- 
tive thereafter.’ Park. Theatr. 1219. 
Knave’s Mustard. A species of Thlaspi, ‘ named Knaves Mustard, 
for that it is too bad for honest men.’ Ger. 206. 
Knawel. A book-name for Sclerantkus annuus, L. (from the Germ. 
knauel). — Ger. Prior, p. 128. 
Knee-Holly. Ruscus aculeatus, L. — South, Hal. Prior, p. 115. . 
Knee Holme. See Holme, Knee. 
Kneehul, or Knehull. Ruscus aculeatus, L. — Turn. Herb. Ger. has 
Kneehulme and Knee-hulver. 
Knife and Fork. (1) Geranium Rohertianum, L. — S. Bucks. 
(2) Lycopodium clavatvm, L. — Sal. (Knives-and-Forks). 
