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A DICTIONARY OF 
Neap. See Nape. 
Neckweed. Canncibis sativa, L. — Lyte. Var. dial. Hal. See 
Bullein’ s Booke of Simples, fol. 26. ‘ Sic dicta quia fuues quibus 
malefici suspenduntur ex hac materia texuntur.’ Skinner. Prior, 
p. 164. 
Needle, or Needles. Scandix Peden, L. — Hants. Hoik; iY.-TF. 
Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6 ; Norf. Hoik The long, needle-like, beaked 
fruits have suggested many similar names for tbe plant ; such are 
Adam’s Needle {E. Lord. Bot. E. Bord.), Beggar’s Needle (Hal. 
Wr. Witb. ed. iv. ; Midlands, E. T). S. Gloss. B. 5 ; Sal. Wellington), 
Clock Needle {S. Bucks.), Crake Needle (With. ed. ii. Hal. Wr. ; 
North, Bay; Yks.), Crow Needle {S. Bucks.; Ess.; Nhamp. Nth. 
Gloss. ; Wight, El. Yect. ; Wr.), DeiPs {E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord.) or 
Devil’s (which see) Darning-needle, Poke {Suss.), Pound (Hal.), 
Puck {Hants, and Suss. Hoik), or Pucker (Pratt) Needle, Pink 
Needle (Cotgrave, Hak), Shepherd’s Needle (Lyte), Tailor’s 
Needle {Cornw.), Venus’ Needle (Ger.), or Witches’ Needle {E. 
Bord. Bot. E. Bord.). Lyte calls it Needle Chervil; Needle Points 
is an Ess. name for it; and Hak and Wr. have Needleweed {Norf. 
Grose, &c.). Hak has ‘ Pook-needle, the cockle in corn. Suss.,' no 
doubt meaning this plant. Aiguille and Aiguille du lerger are among 
its French names. Erodium cicutarium, L’Her., is called Powk 
Needle in Ger. Appx. 
Needle, Ground. Erodium moscliatum, L. — Ger. Appx. Hak W^r. 
Needle, Pink. (1) ‘The herb shepherd’s-bodkin.’ Hak Scandix 
Pecten, L. — See Needle. 
(2) Erodium moscliatum, L’Her., and E. cicutarium, L’Her. — 
Lyte. 
Needle and Thread, Adam’s. A garden name for Yucca filamen- 
tosa, L. — From the hard point of the leaf (see Adam’s Needle (2)), 
and the thread-hke fibres attached to the edges of the leaves. 
Needle Furze. Genista anglica^ L. — With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 164. 
N. Yks. (Needle Whin). 
Neese-wort (Turn. Names), or Neesing-root (Park. Parad.). (1) 
Veratrum album, L. — ‘Because it provoketh neesing’ [sneezing]. 
Coles, A. in E., 238. Lyte spells it Nese-wort. Ger. says the root 
was called Neesing powder : ‘ the powder drawen up into the nose 
causeth sneesing; ’ he also calls Epipactis latifolia, Sw., and Cepha- 
lanthera Neesewort, on account of ‘ the likenesse that [these have] 
with white Hellebore.’ 
(2) Achillea Ptarmica, L. — ‘ The smell of this plant procureth 
sneezing, whereof it tooke the name Sternutamentoria, that is the 
herbe which doth procure sneesing, or Neesewort' Ger. p. 484. 
Nele. ‘ Nele is Lolium' Ger. Appx. From the reference to 
Lolium in Ger. Index, it appears thsA Lychnis Githago, Lam., is meant 
here. Ger. gives the French name of this as Nielle des Bledz or Nielle. 
Prior (p. 164) spells it Neele, and refers it to Lolium temulentum, L., 
but we think erroneously. 
