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CHRISTMAS ANTHEMS. A very common play 
upon the name Chrysanthemums, sent me from 
many parts of the county. 
CHRISTMAS BERRY. Holly (West Somerset and 
Devon). See CHRISTMAS. 
CHRISTMAS CANDLES. The flowers of the Horse 
Chestnut, Asculus Hippocastanum (Oakhill). See 
also CANDLES and CHRISTMAS TREE. 
CHRISTMAS Rose. (1) Black Hellebore, Helle- 
borus niger. 
(2) A correspondent at Camerton gives it as 
a loeal name for the Wild Aconite, Hranthis 
hyemalis. 
CHRISTMAS-TREE. (1) Mr. F. R. Summer- 
hayes, of Milborne Port, gives this as a local name 
for the flower-spike of the Horse Chestnut, #sculus 
Hippocastanum. See CHRISTMAS CANDLES. 
(2) The name is also applied to the Auracaria 
imbricata (often grown as a pot plant). 
CHUCKY CHEESE. The Common Mallow, Malva 
sylvestris. See CHEESES. 
CHuckKy Pic. (1) Same as CHOOKY-PIG (1). 
(2) A correspondent at Cross (near Axbridge) 
gives it as a lccal name for the Grape Hyacinth, 
Muscari. 
CHURCH BELLS. (1) Common Comfrey, Sym- 
phytum officinale. 
(2) Canterbury Bells, Campanula Medium. 
(3) <A correspondent at Leigh (Dorset) applies 
the name to the Ivy-leaved Bell-flower, Campanula 
hederacea. 
CHURCH Brooms. Tne Teasel, Dipsacus 
sylvestris. 
CHURCH STEEPLES. A name sometimes given 
to the Common Agrimony, Agrimonia Eupatoria. 
CHURCH-WORT. An old name for the Penny- 
royal, Mentha Pulegium. 
CHURCHYARD ELDER. A Dunster correspondent 
gives me this as a local name for the Shepherd’s 
Purse, Capsella Bursa-pastoris. 
CHURCHMAN’S GREETING. Dr. Downes ir forms 
me thit in the neighbourhood cf Ilminster, the 
Mistletoe, Viscum album, is sometimes called by 
this name. 
CigaAR FLOWER.—The general Eaglish nam: 
of a Mexican plant of the Loosestrife family 
eultivated in Eaglish gerdens, Cuphea plaiycentra. 
It has a searlet tubular corolla tipped with white 
and black. 
CLADEN. A name very common in Dorset 
for the Goosegrass or Cleavers, Galium Aparine, 
which is known by a large number of different 
names, of which about 20 commence with the 
letters CL. Mr. Mansell Pleydell spells the name 
CLAITON. : 
