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A DICTIONARY OF 
Stink Plant. Allium ursinum, L. — N. Line. (Bottesford). 
Stink Tree. Viburnum Opulus,V. — FI. Vect. ‘ The fruit 
which is intensely acrid and bitter finally becomes disgusting from its 
odour, and hence the plant is sometimes called stink tree in this island.’ 
Bromfield in Phyt. O.S. iii, 421. The wood when green participates 
in the same unpleasant smell to an almost equal degree. 
Stinkweed. Diplotaxis muralis, DC. — ‘ Imported about four years 
ago by means of a vessel laden with oats that was shipwrecked 
on the rocks here The farmers here (Kingsgate, Kent), not 
knowing what to call it, have, on account of its very offensive smell, 
given it the name of stink-weed.' Annals of Agriculture, xix. 82. 
Thanet, Phyt. v. 51. N, S. 
Stinking^ Alisander. Senecio Jacobcm^ L. — Stirlingsli. In Rural 
Cyclopfedia, Stinking Elshinder. 
Stinking Billy. Senecio Jacohoea, L. — Line. 
Stinking Bob. Geranium Robertianum, L. — Bucks. (Wycombe) ; 
Cum h. (Stinkin’ Bobby) E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 8 ; N. Herts. ; Suss. 
(Hastings). 
Stinking Camomile. Antliemis Cotula, L. — Lyte. N.-E. Yks. 
Stinking Christopher. Scropliularia nodosa, L. — Cumb. E. D. S. 
Gloss. 0. 8. 
Stinking Davie. Senecio Jacobcea, L. — ScotJ. (Fife). Jamieson. 
Stinking Elshinder. See Stinking Alisander. 
Stinking Gladden, or Gladwyn. Iris foetidissima, L. — Ger. 
Stinking Horehound. Ballota nigra, L. — Lyte, Turn. Karnes. 
Stinking Nancy. Scabiosa Succisa, L. — Ches. 
Stinking Roger. (1) Scropliularia nodosa, L., and S. aqua.tica, L. 
dies. ; Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 8 ; Ayrsli. ; Irel. (Belfast) Flora 
Belfastiensis ; Ulster. 
(2) Rhaninus Frangula, L. — Ches. 
(3) Ballota nigra, L. — Sal. (Ellesmere). 
(4) Ilyoscyamus niger. — Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8. 
Stinking Tam. Ononis arvensis, L. — E. Bord. ‘ The smell of the 
root is very disagreeable, and hence, in our district, the plant gets the 
name of Stinking Tam.' Bot. E. Bord., p. 52. 
Stinking Weed {S. Scotland, Lightfoot’s FI. Scot. ii. 1132), or Stink- 
ing Willie ; Moray, FI. M. ; Jamieson. Senecio Jacobcea, L. 
Stinking Willow. Myrica Gale, L. — ‘ In some places.’ Phyt. O.S. 
iv. 103. 
Stitch Hyssop. Genista anglica, L. — Hants. 
Stitchwort. Stellaria Holostea, L. — Lyte. Hal. (Stichewort). 
‘ They are woont to drinke it in wine with the powder of acornes, 
against the paine in the side, stitches, E. Suss., and such like.’ 
Ger. p. 43. Prior, p. 224. 
