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A DICTIONARY OF 
Sampler (Lyte), or Rock Sampler (Ger.) CritJimum maritimum, L. — 
Lyte. Sampire is another spelling ; see under Marsh Samphire. 
Samplon. Salicornia herhacea, L. — A corruption of Samphire. 
Ches., about Runcorn, Helsby, and the neighbourhood, where it 
is hawked about by cart-loads for pickling. 
Sanctuary. (1) Erythrcea Centaurium, L., a corruption of the com- 
mon name Centaury, dies. ; Lane. ; Sal. ; Yks. (W. Riding). 
(2) Bartsia Odontites, L. — dies. (Sandbach). 
Sanctuary, Yellow, ddora perfoliata, L.—dies. 
[Sandever. Although entered in Ger. Index, this is not a plant- 
name, but that of ‘ a kinde of scumme ’ produced in glass-making, 
which Parkinson (Theatr. 280) says the French call ‘ Suin de verve, 
the salt of glasse, and wee in Englishe much thereafter Sandiver.'''\ 
Sand-weed. (1) Spergula arvensis, L. — Norf.' Hal. E. D. S. 
Gloss. B. 3. 
(2) A general book-name for the genus Arenaria, which is also 
called Sandwort. Prior, p. 203. 
Sandwort, Sea. A book-name for Honkeneya peploides, Ehrh. — 
Treas. Bot. 
Sanfoin. The general agricultural name for (1) Onohrychis sativa, 
E. — Lyte, who spells it Saint foin. It is also spelt Sainfoin, St. 
Foin, and Sainct-foin. In 1671, a 4to tract was published upon the 
plant, entitled ‘ St. Eoine improved, a discourse shewing the utility 
and benefit which England hath and may receive by the grasse 
called St. Foined Bucks. ; Camb. ; N. Fss. ; Glouc. (Sanfin) ; Norf. ; 
Oxf. See Prior, p. 200. 
(2) Medicago sativa, L., so called in Surflet’s Countrie Farme (1600), 
p. 697 : ‘ called in French sainct foin, for that it may seeme to spring 
out of the earth, and as it were of a more speciall favour from God.’ 
Prior (p. 201) quotes the name as thus applied in the Dictionary of 
Husbandry (1717). Osbeck in his Voyage to China (i. 77 (1771)) says 
that Uedysarum coronarium, L., was called Saintfoin by the French. 
(3) Medicago lupulina, L. — N. Bucks. 
Sanguinary. (1) Polygonum Hydrogoiper, L. — Grete Herball, 
‘ Bycause it draweth blode in places that it is rubbed on.’ 
(2) Achillea Millefolium, L. — Grete Herball. Hal. Prior, p. 203. 
(3) Cupsella Bursa-pastoris, DC. ‘ Bursa pastoris is shepherdes purs, 
some call it sanguinary, because it stauncheth bledinge of the nose.’ 
Grete Herball. 
Sanicle, Sanikle, or Sanikel. Sanicula europxjea, L. — Lyte. Turn. 
Names. Prior, p. 204. 
Sanicle, Great. See Great Sanicle. 
Sanicle, Wood. A book-name for Sanicula europcea, L. 
Sanicle, Yorkshire. Pinguicula vulgaris, L. — A translation of its 
old Latin name. ‘ Some with us [caR it] Sanicula Ehoracensis, because 
it groweth so plentifully in Yorkeshire.’ — Park. Theatr., 534. 
