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 52 A GLOSSABT OF DBVONSHntB PLANT NAMES. Stinot or Stinging Nbttlbs (1) UrHea urena, L., but applied also to tiie yariouB Laaniurns^ as (2) Lamium album, L., &c. Both kinds ate gathered and boiled for pigs when meat is short It is well known that the LammmB are caJled Dead, Deaf, or Dtunb Nettles ; but it is certainly note- worthy that they should be called Sting Nettles. As a proof that the name ia not given without a knowledge of the difference between the plants, we may refer to the testimony supplied by the name WmTB Sting Nbttlb. Stook-habbs. '^Anybody wanting honey, or stock-harbs, or peppeimint-water, go to Gomner Munfoid, you were sure to have et the virst words/' {Devonshire Courtship, p. 55.) Stooking6-ani>-Shoes,Zio^ comictdixtus, L. (See Lady's Boots.) Stovbr Nut, Castanea vesca, L. Quite a local name, employed only around Newton Abbot, on account of the abundance of Chest- nuts found growii^ in Stover Park, the estate of the Duke of Somerset Strawbbd, Galium veinim, L. By transposition, for Bedstraw. Strawberry Plant (1), Poterdilla Fragaiiastrum, L. Britten, p. 26, gives Barren Strawbbrry as a modem book name for ihia plant (2) Saxifraga Sarmentosa, L., because its runners and young plants are exactly like those of the Strawberry. {Cf, Spider Plant. Stroyl, Tnticum repem, L., and other creeping grasses and weeds, usually known as Couch. (See Britten, p. 120.) Many quotations illustrative of this word are given in Trans. Devon. Assoc, viL p. 548. Stubbbrd, name of an Apple. {Devonshire Courtship, p. 72.) Well known in other parts of England. SuMMBR Eosb, Corchorus Japonicus, L A species of Kerria Japonica, and known under a variety of names in the West of E^land, the most common perhaps being Yellow Rose (which see). Sunflower, Omithogalum umbdlaium, L., the Star of Bethle- hem. It is also called " Lady-eleven-o'Clock,'' &c. The name refers to the peculiarity of the flower in closing or opening only at certain times. On the name Sunflower see Prior, p. 229. Sweep's Brushes, Dipsacus sylvestris, L. (See Brushes.) Swbbt Alice, Alyssum rnaiitimum, L. The ^^ Sweet Alison of gar- dens is a cruciferous plant . . . Arahis alpina is known in cultivation as White Allison." (Britten, p. 11.) In Devonshire Alyssum or Allison has been changed into (1) Anisb (which see), by the common interchange of Z and ?», and (2) Alice. {Cf. Prior, pp. xv« 231.) Sweethearts, Burrs of Galium Aparine, L., Cleaveis, or Qider, because they stick to one's clothes as a sweetheart does to one's affections. Swbbt Lbaf, Hypericum Androscmmm, 1*. A native of Plymptoa