ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 447 
Spikenard. Sison Amomum, L. — Hants. (Petersfield). FI. Yect. 
Spikenard, Ploughman’s. See Ploughman’s Spikenard. 
Spinach, or Spinage. Spinada olemcea, L. — Lyte. ‘ So called 
because his seed is prickly.’ Surflet’s Countrie Farme, p. 226. Prior, 
p. 218 . 
Spinach, French. CJienopodium ruhrum,~L. — Peering. (Cat. Stirp.) 
Spinach, Wild. (1) Chenopodlum Bomis-Henricus, L. — With. 
Hants.; Wilts. Phyt. O.S. hi. 753. 
(2) Chenopodlum album, L. — Holdich, Essay on Weeds, who also 
calls it Mountain Spinach. ‘ The herb goosefoot.’ Ilal. Beds. 
Batchelor. 
(3) Beta maritima, L. — Wight. FI. Yect.; Ireland. ‘This species is 
especially common on tbe Pock Island, northwest of Great Aran. 
The natives send their sheep there from the other islands when sick, 
believing that the wild spinach, as they call it, cures them. Mr. 
More informs me that the leaves form an excellent vegetable when 
cooked like spinach.’ H. C. Hart, List of Plants found in Aran, 
Galway Bay (1875). 
(4) Campanula latifolia, L. — Yks. (W. Piding), where the young 
shoots are boiled and eaten. 
Spindle Tree. Euonymus europceus, L. — ‘In Latine Fusaria and 
Fusanum .... in Englishe, Spindeltree, by cause the timber of this 
tree serveth well to the making of . . . Spindles ; in Frenche, ; 
in high Douch /Spmdrikmm.’ Lyte, p. 760. In (7Zoz^. Spindle-wood. 
Prior, p. 219. 
Spingel. ‘ Fennel. Som.’ Hal. Foeniculum vidgare, Gsertn. 
Spink (Pink). (1) The garden polyanthus, Primida vulgaris, L., 
var. Clackmannansh. 
(2) Cardamine pratensis, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. (also Bog- 
spinks). 
‘ Or can our flowers at ten hours bell, 
The Gowan or the Spink excell.’ — P. Ferguson. 
Prior, p. 219. 
(3) Dianthiis deltoides, L. — Edinb. 
Spink, May. Primula vidg arts, Y. — Aherdeensli. ; Mearns, Jamieson. 
Spink, Meadow. Lychnis Flos-cuculi, L. — Stirlingsh. 
Spire, or Spires. (1) Psamma a.renaria,W A S. — Wight. ‘Known 
only as spire, a term applied by the islanders to all the larger-spiked 
and closer-panicled grasses, carices and Typhae.’ FI. Yect. p. 583. 
(2) Plialaris arundinacea, L. — Hants. (New Forest). ‘The phrase 
‘spire-bed’ or ‘spear-bed’ is very common, meaning a particular 
field, near where the ‘ spires ’ grow, which are used by thatchers and 
plasterers in their work.’ Wise, New Forest, 287. 
(3) Phragmites communis, Trin. ‘ The common Peede or Spier.' 
Lyte, p. 514. Dev. {‘ Arundo, a reed ’) E. D. S. Gloss. B. 6. Prior, 
p. 219. This is possibly the Spire Grass of Sternberg’s Nhamp. Gloss. 
See Grass, Spire. 
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