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A DICTIONARY OF 
Nig^htshade. A general name for the genus Solanum. — Turn. Lib. 
Prior, p. 16o. Said to be applied in Kent to a species of Chenopodium. 
Nightshade, Bindweed. Circoea Lutetiana, L. — Ger. 
Nightshade, 'Bittersweet. A book-name for Solannm Dulcamara^ 
L. — Prior, p. 165. 
Nightshade, Deadly. See Deadly Nightshade. 
Nightshade, Enchanter’s. A common book-name for Circrea Lute- 
tiana, L. — Ger. (Inchanter’s N.). ^ A name that, by some blunder, 
has been transferred from the mandrake to an insignificant garden 
weed.’ Prior, p. 72. Ger. speaks of ‘ the errour of some who have 
taken Mandragoras for Circea, in which errour they have still per- 
sisted unto this daie, attributing unto Circea the vertues of Mandra- 
goras.’ 
Nightshade, Garden. Solanum nigrum, L. — Lyte. It is a common 
garden weed. 
Nightshade, Sleeping. Atropa Belladonna, L. — Ger. A translation 
of its old Lat. name, Solanum somniferum. ‘ This kind of Nightshade 
causeth sleepe.’ Ger. 270. 
Nightshade, Wood (Park. Theatr.), or Woody. Solanum Didca- 
mara, L. — Lyte. A translation of one of its old names, Solanum 
lignosum. Prior, p. 165. 
Nimble-tailors. ‘ A field-pea.’ NTiamp. Nth. Gloss. 
Nine-joints. Polygonum aviculare, L. — ‘ Of its great number of 
joynts.’ Coles, A. in E., 348. 
Ninety-knot. Polygonum aviculare, L. — Sal. Prior, p. 165. 
Ninny vers. See Nenuphar. 
Nip. See Nep (1). 
Nippernails. ‘ Hips of the wild rose.’ dies. Col. Egerton Leigh’s 
Glossary. Rosa canina, L. 
Nipple-wort. The common book-name for Lapsana communis, L. — 
Prior, p. 166. Parkinson seems to have given the name. ‘ Camerarius 
saith that in Prussia they call it Papillaris, because it is good to heale 
the ulcers of the nipples of womens breasts, and thereupon I have 
intituled it Nipplewort in English.’ Theatr. p. 811. Coles (A. in E., 
147) has a similar note. Holme (Acad, of Armory, ii. 105) has ‘ Nip- 
wort or Nipplewort.’ 
Nips. ‘ Hips of the wild rose.’ dies. Col. Egerton Leigh’s 
Glossary. Rosa canina, L. 
Nipwort. See Nipplewort. 
Nit. A Scotch pronunciation of Nut (fruit of Corylus Avellana, 
L.). — Jamieson, who gives also ‘ nit-grit, as large or great as a nut, 
South of Scotl.' 
Nit-grass. Gastridium lendigerum. Gaud. — Prior, p. 166. 
Noble Agrimony. Anemone Hepatica, L. — Lyte. 
