ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Snake’s Poison. Iris fuetidissima, L. — Dev. 
Snake’s Poison-food. Solcmum Dulcamara, L. — Bucks. (Great 
Marlow). 
Snake’ s-tongue. Ranuncidus Flaminula, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. 
Bord. 
Snake’s Victuals. (1) Fruit of Arum maculatum, L. — Gloii. (Fair- 
ford) ; South. ‘ This noisome fruit of clustering berries was 
snaked victuals, and to be avoided ; for, bright as was its colour, it 
was only fit for a reptile’s food.’ Bound about a Great Estate, p. 24. 
(2) Mercuricdis jperennis, L. — E. Suss. 
Snap-crackers. Stellar ia Holostea, L. — Ess. 
Snapdragon. Various species of Linaria and of Antirrhinum. 
(1) Linaria vulgaris, L. — N. and E. Yks, ; in W. dies, and S. Dev. 
Yellow Snapdragon. The flowers are ‘ fashioned like a frog’s mouth, 
or rather a dragon’s mouth ; from whence the women have taken the 
name Snapdragon.^ Ger. 438. 
(2) Antirrhinum majus, L. — Lyte. Great Snapdragon, dies. ; 
S. Dev. Prior, p. 215. 
(3) Digitalis purpurea, L. — Dev. Friend. 
(4) Aquilegia vulgaris, L. — N. Dev. Friend. 
(5) Fumaria officinalis, L. — Nhamp. 
Snap Grass. See Grass, Snap. 
Snap Jack. Stellaria Holostea, L. — Dev. ; Dors. ; Som. (general). 
Pulman. 
Snappers. (1) Silene inflata, L. — Kent (Folkestone) ; Suss. 
(2) Stellaria Holostea, L. — Suss. ; also Snapper-flower. 
Snaps. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Som. 
Snapsen. Populus tremula, L. — Wight. Hal. 
Snap-stalks. Stellaria Holostea, L. — dies. 
Snap-willow. Salix fragilis, L. — Soidh. ‘ The snap-willow, which 
is so brittle that every gale breaks off its feeble twigs.’ Bound about 
a Great Estate, p. 87. 
Snapwort. Stellaria Holostea, L. — Kent. 
Snat-berries. The fruit of Taxus haccata, L., from their sliminess. 
Nhamp. Sternb. Cfr. Snottergall and Snottle-berries. 
Sneezewort. (1) A common book-name for Achillea Ptarmica, L., 
from its old name Sternutamentoria, ‘ bicause it procureth sneesing.’ 
Ger. 484. ‘ Some call [the “ double ” form] Sneezeivort, but Elleborus 
albus is usually so called, and I would not things should be called 
by the name for the mistaking and mis-using of them.’ Park. Parad. 
288. The plant Parkinson here refers to ( Veratrum album) is more 
usually referred to under another form of the same name — i. e. 
Neesewort, which see. Prior, p. 215. 
(2) Achillea Millefolium, L. — Glou. 
