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A DICTIONARY OF 
torta sua figiira Anguium convolutiones aliquo modo refer re videntur.’ 
In some parts of Som. the fruit is called snag, hut the tree is black- 
thorn. Prior, p. 215. 
Snail Clover. Medicago sativa, L., in Surflet’s Countrie Farm, p. 
698. Prior (p. 215) extends the name to the genus. It belongs more 
properly, however, to Medicago scuteUata, L., to which it is assigned 
in Turn. Names (Snail Trifoly) and the earlier writers, from the 
shape of the pods, which Gerard says are ‘ like the water-snaile or the 
fish called Periwinck ’ (p. 1029). 
Snake-berry. (1) Bryonia dioica, L. — Buff. 
(2) Tamils communis, L. — Buff. 
(3) Solanum Dulcamara, L. — Buff. 
Snake Fern. See Fern, Snake. 
Snake Flower. (1) Stellaria Holostea, L. — Notts. ; Wo)’c. 
(2) Pulmonaria angustifolia, L. — Hants. (New Forest). 
(3) Lamium album, L. — Camh. ; N. Ess.; Norf. 
(4) Echium vulgare, L. — Wight. FI. Vect. 
(5) Orchis mascula, L. — B.-W. Cumh. 
(6) Fritillaria Meleagris, L. — ‘ Herb of the Field,’ 160. 
(7) Lychnis vespertina, Sibth. — Oxf. Science Gossip, 1882, p. 165. 
Snake Grass. See Grass, Snake. 
Snake-leaves. Scolopendrium vulgare, Sm. — Som. 
Snake Pipes. Various species of Eguisetum, but more especially 
E. arvense, L., and E. palustre, L. — Camh. ; N. Ess. ; Norf. ; Bom. 
Snake-skin Willow. South. ‘ The snake-shin icillow, so called 
because it sheds its bark.’ Round about a Great Estate, p. 87. 
Snake-tail, Snake’s-tail. Lepturus ineurvatus, Trin. Baxter. Prior, 
p. 215. 
Snake-weed. Polygonum Fagopyruin, L. — With. ed. iv. 
(1) Polygonum Bistorta, L. — Lyte. dies. Ger. ; also Snake-wort. 
Prior, p. 215. 
(2) Mercurialis perennis, L. — Sal. (Pulverbatch). 
Snake’s Bit. Mercurialis gyerennis, L. — E. Suss. 
Snake’s Bugloss. See Bugloss, Viper’s. 
Snake’s Fiddles. Iris foetidissima, L. — Wight. 
Snake’s-food, or Snake’s-meat. (1) Fruit of Arum maculatum, 
L. — Dev. 
(2) Fruit of Iris foetidissima, L. — Dev. 
(3) Tamus communis, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Snake’s-head. Fritillaria Meleagris, L. — Berks.; Herts. Phyt. 
vi. 149 N. S. ; Middx. Blackstone (Specimen Botanicum, 1746) ; Burr. 
Phyt. O.S. i. 580. Prior, p. 215. Also called Snake’s-head Lily; 
Backs, and Oxf. N. & Q. 4th S. iv. 66. 
