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Dream, Act iii. sc. 2), and is the plant commonly known as knotgrass. 
Prior, p. 128. 
(2) Avena elatior, L. (the variety with nodes on the root-stock). — 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Ess. ; Moray, FI. M. ; Scotl. Jamieson. Ger. 
calls it Knobbie or Knottie Couchgrass. 
(3) Sderanthus annuus, L. — Lyte. ] 
(4) Lyte calls Hippuris vulgaris, L., Female Knotgrasse. 
(5) Milton (in Comus) seems to intend some pasture grass when he 
says : 
‘ The chewing flocks 
Had ta’ en their supper on the savoury herb 
Of knotgrass dew-besprent.’ 
This may be Agrostis stolonifera, L., which is called knotgrass in Beds. 
(Batchelor’s Gen. View of Agriculture of Bedfordshire (1808), p. 324), 
and of which Aubrey speaks (Nat. Hist, of Wilts., ed. Britton, p. 51), 
as ‘ a sort of knott grasse.’ In Treas.* Bot. the name is assigned (in 
error ?) to Triticum repens, L. 
Knotgrass, Bird’s. A translated book-name for Polygonum avicu- 
lare, L. — With. ed. vii. 
Knotgrass, German. Sderanthus annuus, L. — With. ed. ii. 
Knotty Meal. Bunium Jlexuosum, With. — Invernessli. ; Moray, 
FI. M. 
Knotweed. Centaurea nigra, L., C. Cyanus, L., and C. Scahiosa, 
L. — Nhamp. Nth. Gloss. : also in Clare’s Shep. Cal., p. 49. The form 
of divination described by Clare is practised in E. Bord. with Plantago 
lanceolata, L. See Bot. E. Bord., p. 171. 
Knotwort. Polygonum amculare, L. — Treas. Bot. Prior, p. 128. 
Knout-berry. Rubus ChamcBmorus, L. — North, Ger. Emac.; E. Bord. 
Bot. E. Bord. ; Yks. ; Dumfriessh. See Knot-berry. 
Knowles. See Knolles. 
Knowperts. Empetrum nigrum, L. — Banff sh. Phyt. vi. 474, n. s. 
Knub-berry. Rubus ChamcBmorus, L. — Dumfriessh. See Knot- 
berry. Jamieson has Nub -berry. 
Knuckle-bleeders. The petioles of AEsculus Hippocastanum, L. — 
Norf. (Norwich). ‘ Boys try to get one another to allow them to hit 
them over the knuckles with the end which grows next the branch.’ 
Mr. W. G. Piper. 
Kohl-rabi. The agricultural name for Brassica oleracea, L., var. 
gongylodes. ‘ A German name, from It. cavolo-rapa, Fr. chou-rave, 
L. caulo-rapum, a cabbage-turnip, a cabbage whose stem is swollen 
so as to resemble a turnip.’ Prior, p. 129. 
Koling. ^ The crab-apple.’ Sal. Hal. Pyrus Malus, L. : also spelt 
Coling (Wr.). Hartshorne, however, defines it as ‘ a rough-tasting 
apple, nearly allied to the crab ; ’ and adds that the ‘ word is peculiar 
to the neighbourhood of Ludlow.’ 
