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A DICTIONARY OR 
Stirlingsh. ; Prior, p. 205 {8. Cajprea, L,). A correspondent states tliait 
in Climb. (Winderwath) this name was, fifty years ago, pronounced 
with the strongest guttural sound ; but that it is now rapidly dropping 
to Saff. 
Saugh, Grey, Salix cinerea, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Saugh, Hoburn. Cytisus Lahurnum, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Saugh, Privy. Ligustrum vidgare^ L. — Scotl. (South), Lightfoot, 
El. Scot., ii. 1131. 
Saugh, Red. See Red Saugh. 
Savager, Wild. Lychnis Bithago, Lam. — Ger. Appx. Hal. 
Save. ‘ The herb sage.’ Hal. Scdvia officinalis, L. 
Savin or Savine, or Savin-tree. The general name for (1 ) Junigm'us 
Sabina, L. — Lyte. dies. ; 8. W. Cumb. ; Sal. (where it is also pron. 
8avurn-tre) ; Stiffi. Moor ; TFes^m. ; Wales. ‘ Ab anglis sauyn appel- 
latur.’ Turn. Lib. Prior, p. 205. Galloway (Saving-tree). Mac- 
taggart’s Gallovidian Encyclopsedia : it takes its name, according to 
this writer, from its use in procuring abortion, ‘ as being able to save 
a young woman from shame' ! The name is extended to Jiiniperus 
liana, to which Petiver (Mus. Pet. Cent, viii.) says it is applied in 
Westm. and Wales. 
(2) Artemisia maritima, L. — Suss. (Chichester Harbour.) ‘The 
Sea Wormwood, here called Savin, and used for deleterious purposes 
too generally known.’ Science Gossip, 1875, p. 34. 
Saviour’s Blanket. Stachys lanata, L. — Suss, (gardens). 
Saviour’s (Our) Flannel. See Flannel, Our Lord’s. 
Savory, or Summer Savory. Satureja hortensis, L. — Winter 
Savory is Satureja montana, L. Prior, p. 205, spells it Savoury, 
and Tusser (Eiye Hundred Points. E. D. S. ed.) Saverie : in Turn. 
Lib. Savery. 
Saw-wort. Serratula tinctoria, L. It has ‘large leaves somewhat 
snipt about the edges like a sawe, whereof it tooke his name.’ Ger. 
576. Prior, p. 205. Applied by Holdich (Essay on Weeds) to Carduus 
arvensis, L. 
Saxifer. See Sassifax. 
Saxifrage. (1) The genus Saxifraga: S. granulata, L. — Turn. 
Herb. : see (2). Prior, p. 205. 
(2) Pimpinella Saxifraga, L. — ‘ Some call this herbe Saxifrage / 
because it groweth amongest stones in many places / and cleveth 
them / and some call it Saxifrage / for the propertye that it hath in 
breaking of the stone in a mannis bodye / and it deserveth much 
better the name of Saxifrage / then our English saxifrage \_Saxifraga 
granulata'] doth.’ Turn. Herb. Prior, p. 206. 
(3) Silaus pratensis, Bess. — Turn. Names. 
(4) Carum Carvi, L. — Line. ‘ Carum grows plentifully in our 
pastures ; the seed they call Saxifrage, which they gather and send 
to London.’ Phil. Trans, xviii-xix, p. 350 (1695-97). 
(5) Asplenium Ceferach, L. — Grete Herball. 
