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A DICTIONARY OF 
Soldiers’ Yarrow. Stratiotes aloides, L. — Ger. 
Sole-leather, or Sole-leather Kelp. A name given to the thicker 
Laminarice, as Laminaria digitata, Lam., L. bulbosa, Lam., &c. Treas. 
Bot. 
Sol-flower. Helianthemum vulgare, Gsertn. — Moray. 
Sollendine (a corruption of Celandine). Chelidonium magus, L. — 
Ireland [Co. Donegal), where it is ‘in great request for sore eyes.’ 
Journal of Botany, 1881, p. 234. 
Solomon’s Puzzles. Sedum Telephium, L. — Middx. (London). 
Sometimes sold under this name by itinerant flower-sellers. 
Solomon’s Seal. (1) A general name for Polygonatum muliiflorum, 
All. — Grete Herball. Ger. Hal. ‘ Dioscorides writeth, that the rootes 
are excellent good for to seale or close up greene wounds, being 
stamped and laide thereon : whereupon it was called Sigillwn Salo- 
monis Some have thought it tooke the name Sigillum of the 
markes upon the rootes; but the first reason seemeth to me more 
probable.’ Ger. 758. Coles, A. of S., p. 26. Holme (Acad, of Armory, 
ii. 100) calls it St. John’s Seal, or S. Marie’s Seal, or the Seal of 
Heaven. Prior, p. 216. 
(2) Hypericum calycinum, L. — Nliamp. (Harlesden) Journ. North- 
ampton Nat. Hist. Soc. 
Solsekille. ‘ The plant solseguium. It is mentioned in MS. Line. 
Med. f. 283.’ Hal. 
Somerwort. Aristolochia. Ger. Appx. 
Son-before-the-father. (1) Petasites vulgaris, Desf. Because the 
flowers appear before the leaves. Scotland, Clackmannansli. 
(2) Tussilago Farfara, L. — Por the same reason. Cumb. E. D. S. 
Gloss. 0. 8 (Son afoor t’fadder) ; Scotland, N. & Q. 4th S. iii. 35. 
C la ckmannans h. 
(3) Filago germanica, L. — This plant receives the name from its 
method of growth, the older flowers being seated in the forks of the 
younger branches. Thus the young flowers overtop the older ones, 
as if a son should take precedence of his father. See N. & Q. 4th S. 
iii. 91. Cfr. Herb Impious. 
(4) Colchicum autumnale, L. — Holme, Acad, of Armory, ii. 65 ; ‘ be- 
cause the flowers come up before the leaves, the one in autumn and 
the other in winter.’ 
(5) Epilobium liirsutum, L. — ‘ Is called of some, in Latine, Films 
ante Patrem, that is to say, the sonne before the father, bycause 
y‘ has long huskes in which the seede is coteined do come forth, and 
waxe great, before that the floure openeth.’ Lyte, 74. 
Son’s Brow. ‘ The Great Push, or Bull Eush, called of some the SoFs 
Brow.'* Holme, Acad, of Armory, ii. 57. 
Sookies, or Soukies, or Souks. Trifolimn pratense, L. — E. Bord. 
Bot. E. Bord.; Scotl. (Clydesdale, Wigton), Jamieson; N.-E. Bord. 
T. repens, L., is called White Sookies, and T. medium Wild Sookies. 
Bot. E. Bord. 
