Some plants that sound like diseases or Dickensian characters:
Farkleberry (Dickens)
Pussytoes (disease)
Bloodroot (Dickens)
Toothwort (disease)
Dodder (Dickens)
Dutchman’s-breeches (disease)
Nipplewort (Dickens)
Sneezeweed (disease)
Seabious (Dickens)
Sulphur tuft (disease)
Bearberry (Dickens)
Black meddick (disease)
Rosy Pussytoes.