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Slake, Slauke, Sloke, or Sluke. NTames given to various species of 
Algse, for the most part confined to marine edible species, but also 
extended to freshwater ones. (1) Ulva Lactuca, L., and U. latissima, 
L. — Lyte. Nhumh. ; ‘A northubriensibus vocatur Slauke.'' Turn, 
Lib. ; Ireland. ‘ Some use it for food in that old English colony of 
Golerain in this kingdom, and that by this name.’ Threlkeld. Light- 
foot (El. Scotica ii. 970) calls this Green Sloke, as distinguished from 
the next. 
(2) Porpliyra lacinmta, Ag. ^ Sloke or Slake. Scotis.’ Lightfoot. 
El. Scotica, ii. 967. ‘ Sometimes brought to table ... in Scotland and 
Ireland under [the name] of sloke, slouk, or sloukaum.’ Harvey, Phyc. 
Brit. t. 92. Ireland (Antrim and Down), E. D. S. Gloss. ‘ This is 
that substance, stew^ed with a little water, which is sold about our 
[Dublin] streets by the name of slokel Wade, PL rar. Hibern,, 161 
(1804). 
(3) Species of Enteromorplia. E. Bord. ‘ The Enferomorphoe fill the 
bed of the lower part of the Tweed during the summer, and are well 
known to our fishermen under the name of Slake, for, by clogging his 
nets, they offer a serious obstacle to his work.’ Bot. E. Bord. 287. 
(4) Scotl. ‘ A slimy plant which grows in burns and springs.’ 
(Slawk). Jamieson. Some Conferva is probably here intended. , 
Slake Kale. See Kale, Slake, 
Sian, or Slans. Fruit of Prunus spinosa, L. — Dev. (Slane) Hal. ; 
Clou. ; Nhamp. Sternb. ; Oxf. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3 ; Sal. Hartshorne ; 
Warm. (S.) E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 3; Wilts. E. D. S. Gloss. B. 19. 
Slane. See Sian and Slean. 
Slanlas. Plantago major, L. — Ireland (Antrim, Down) ; ‘ evi- 
dently from the Irish slan = health, or healthy.’ 
Slatenhara. Laminaria diyitata, Lam. — Scotl, Rural Cyclopaedia. 
Slath. Fruit of the Sloe, Prunus insititia, L. — Lane. (Preston), 
wLere a conserve is made from it which is in high repute amongst 
the country people as an astringent medicine. Science Gossip, 1882, 
p. 164. 
Slauke. See Slake. 
Slaun-bush, or Slaun-tree. Prunus sgnnosa, L. — Leic. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Slea, or Sleas, in many of the Glossaries spelt Sleea or Sleeah. 
Fruit of Prunus spinosa, L. — Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 (S.-W.) (Slea- 
tree, or Slea-thorn), (N.) (Slee-tree) ; Yks. (Holderness) E. D. S. 
Gloss. 0. 7, (Swaledale) E. D. S, Gloss. 0. 1, (Wensleydale), (Whitby) 
E. D. S. Gloss. C. 4. In Turn. Names Sle-tree. 
Sleech, or Sleech Grass, Zostera marina, L. — Irel. (Antrim, Down) 
E. D. S. Gloss. 
Sleep-at-Noon. Tragopogon pratensis, L. — Treas. Bot. 
Sleepies.^ BroJims secalinus, L. — Kincardineshire, Stat. Acet. Scot- 
land, xi. 155. ‘ Field brome grass, from its supposed soporific quali- 
ties.’ Jamieson. 
