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A DICTIONARY OF 
Sour Leek. See Leek, Sour. 
Sour-sabs, Sour-suds. (1) Rumex Acetosa, L. — Dev. Friend. 
(2) Oxalis Acetosella, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Sour Sauce. Rumex Acetosa^ L. — Line. ; Sa7. ; Yks. In Bucks. 
Sour Sodge. 
Sour Sodge. See Sour Sauce. 
Sourocks. Rumex Acetosa, L. — N. of Irel.; Scotland, Mactaggart’s 
Gallovidian Encyclopaedia. ‘The Soiuruck, Sc, Anst.’ Lightfoot’s 
FI. Scot., ii. 1131, where R. Acetosella, L., is called Sheep’s Sowruck. 
In Complaynt of Scotland (1549) Sourakkis. 
Sourocks, Lammie. Rumex Acetosella, L.' — Teviotdcde. Jamieson. 
Sou-soell, Rhodijmenia palmata, Grev. — Scotl. Eiiral Cyclopaedia. 
Southern-wood. A common name for Artemisia Ahrotanum, L. — 
Turn. Names, Clies. ; Ess. Prior, p. 217. Extended to many allied 
species, and often spelt Sothernwood by old writers (Ger., &c.) ; pro- 
nounced Soldernwood and Sozu-therniuood in Nliamp. : in Catholicon 
Anglicum Sothren wod. 
Sovereign Flower. Kerria japonica, L. — N. Line. (Bottesford). 
Sowbane. Chenopodium lujhridum, L. — ‘In base Almaigne . . . . 
Sclnveinsztod, and Seutod, that is to say, Siuineshane, because the hogs 
eating of this herbe, are immediatly baned, or taken with the murren, 
so that within short space they die.’ Lyte. With. (ed. iii.) and Prior 
(p. 217) incorrectly refer the name to C. ruhrum, L. 
Sow-bread. Cyclamen europceum, L. — Lyte. Prior, p. 217. 
Sow-dingle. Sow thistle, Sonclius oleraceus, L., and other plants 
not much dissimilar in appearance. W.-TF'. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6. 
Sow Fennel. Peucedanum officinale, L. — Lyte. In Crete Herball 
Swynefenel. 
Sow Foot. Tussilago Farfara, L. — Yks. (Cleveland). 
Sow Grass. SeneMera Coronopus, Poir. — N. Yks. 
Sow Sorrel. See Sorrel, Sow. 
Sow Thistle. A general name for Sonclius oleraceus, L. — Lyte. 
Turn. Lib. Clies. ; Gloii. (Zow Thistle) ; Herts. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. 
Bord. including S. arvensis, L. Prior, p. 217. ‘When sowes have 
piggs, they do most greedily desire it, because they know by a certain 
natural instinct, wherewith most brutes are indued, that it doth very 
much increase their milk ; and for that reason I conceive it is called 
by the name of sow-thistle.’ Coles, A. in E, p. 64. 
Sowdwort. (1) Aquilegia vulgaris, L. — Ger. Appx. Hal. 
(2) Sal sola Kali, L. — Prior, p. 217. 
[Sowen. Scotland. ‘ Put sowens in your gun. Sowens, it will be 
understood, is an edible moss, rather popular in the country, but 
wholly destitute of any explosive qualities.’ N. & Q, 4th S. iv. 274. 
It seems more likelj", however, that the refuse of oatmeal, from which 
