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Sap-ball. ‘ A local name for those Polypori which ^row on trees, 
but apphed more especially to P. squamosus.’ Treas. Bot. 
Sap-Tree. Fyrus Aucuqjaria, Geertn. — Yks., Cleveland Gloss. 
Saponary. Saponaria officinalis, L. — ‘ It is called saptonary' 
Grete Herball. 
Saracen’s Comfrey (Lyte), Consound (Lyte), or Woundwort (Ger.). 
Senecio sarracenicus^ L. — SoUdago sarracenica and Consolida sarracenica 
were among its old Latin names. 
Sarock. Rumex Acetosa, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Sassafy. See Salsafy. 
Sassifax. ‘ The meadow- saxifrage.’ Hal. Saxifraga granulata,lj., 
which is called Sassifrax in Som. The double-flowered variety is 
called Double Saxifer at Clifton, Oxf. 
Sates. ‘ Quickset. SaV Hal. Shropshire Word-Book. Young 
plants of Crataegus Oxyacantha, L. 
Satin, or Satin-flower. Lunar ia hiennis, L. — ‘In Horthfolke 
Sattin, or White Sattin : ’ ‘ the innermost skin [dissepiment of the 
pods] where on the seed doth hang or cleave, is thinne and cleere 
shining, like a peece of white Satten newly cut from the peece.’ Ger. 
pp. 377, 378. Nhamp. (Satinflower). In dies. Satin-leaves (Grin- 
don’s British and Garden Botany, p. 152)., In Park. Parad. (265), 
White Satten. 
Saturday’s Pepper. Euphorbia Helioscopia, L. — Wilts. 
Satyrion. A name given by Lyte to various species of Orchis, 
Prior, p. 205. 
Sauce-alone. AlUaria officinalis, Andrzj. Turn. Lib. W. dies. 
‘ Divers eate the stamped leaves heerof with salt fish, for a sauce, as 
they do those of Pamsons.’ Ger. 650. ‘It is commonly used both 
in England and in Germany / to be put in sauces in the springe of 
the yeare / wherfore the English men call it Sauce alone j & ye 
Germanes Sauszkraut.’ Turn. Herb. Prior, p. 205. 
Sauch. The genus Salix. dies. Wilbraham’s Gloss. ; Ayrsh. ; 
Inv. ; Moray, FI. M. {8. pentandra, L.) ; Scotl. Jamieson; Early 
Lowland Scotch, E. D. S. Gloss. B. 13 (Sauch-tree). 
Sauch-weed. Polygonum Persicaria, L. — Ayrsh. Sauch = willow. 
The name may be given to this plant from being shaped like those of 
a willow ; but perhaps Polygonum amphihium, L., is the plant intended, 
of which the foliage much more resembles that of a willow. See 
Grass (Willow), also Ground Willow, and Willow-weed. 
Sauf. Salix Caprea, L., and most probably other species of willow. 
‘ The willow or sallow. Yks.’ Hal. ; E. Yks. E. D. S. Gloss. B. 2 ; 
(Whitby) E. D. S. Gloss. C. 4 (the willow or sallow-tree). 
Saugh, Saugh-tree, or Saugh-bus (bush). The genus Salix. Turn. 
Names. CVies. Wilbraham’ s Gloss. ; E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 : A.-TF. 
Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6 ; North, Turn. Hal. ; E. Lord. {S. alba, L., 
S. Caprea, L.), Bot. E. Bord. ; Scotl. Lightfoot, FI. Scotica, ii. 607 ; 
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