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CLAPPEDE OR CLAPPEDE-PoUCcH. S -veral young 
people at Alier give me this as a local name for 
the Shepherd’s Parse, Capsella Bursa-pastoris. 
If the name is still used in that neighbourhood 
it is most interesting. Dy. Prior gives the fol- 
lowing particulars with regard to it :—‘“ A sick- 
name from the Dutch, whieh alludes to the 
licensed begging of lepers, who stood at the cross- 
ways with a bell and clapper.’? Hoffman von 
Fallevsleben, in his Niederlindische Vo.kslieder, 
says of them (p. 97) :--‘‘ Separated from all the 
world, without house or home, the lepers were 
obliged to dwell in a solitary wretched hut by 
the roadside : their clothing so scanty that they 
often had nothing to wear but a hat and a cloak 
and a begging wallet. They would call the atten- 
tion of the passers-by with a bell or a clapper, 
and receive their alms in a cup or a bason at the 
end of a long pole. The bell was usually of 
brass. The clapper is described as an instrument 
made of two or three boards, by rattling which 
they excited people to relieve them. The lepers 
would get the name of Rattle-pouches, and this. 
be extended to the plant in allusion to the little 
purses which it hangs out by the wayside.” 
CLARY. A very general name for the Wild 
Sage, Salvia Verbenaca. The usual Evglish rame 
for S. Sclarea. See CLEAR EYE. 
CLATON. See CLADEN. 
LAUT. The Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris 
(N.W. Wilts). 
CLAVERS. A Dorset form of the name Cieavers 
(given by Rev. W. BARNES and others). See 
CLADEN. 
CLAY. A correspondent at Washford gives 
me this as a local name for the Ci or 
Cleavers. See CLADEN. 
CLAYTON. See CLADEN. 
CLEAR Eye. (1) Wild Sage, Salvia Verbenaca. 
The old herbalists considered this one of the 
most efficacious of herbs in any complaint of 
the eye. Its seeds when put into water yield 
a mucilage which, placed within the cyelid for 
a few minutes, envelops any particle of dust 
which may pain the eye. Hence the name of 
the plant Clear Eye or Clary. 
(2) I am indebted to Mr. T. W. Cowan for 
the following interesting notes :—CLEAR-EYE or 
SEE-BRIGHT are old popular names for the plant 
Salvia Sclarea, and are corruptions of the word 
Clary, otherwise called Godes-eie or Oculus 
Christi. On the strength of these names it was 
regarded, Prior says, as'a proper ingredient for 
eye-salves. Gerard says in his Herbal it is called 
Clarie -or Cleere-eie. See also Goopy’s-EYE, 
Somerset name for Salvia Sclarea, a corruption 
of a popular name GoD’s-EYE (Britten & Holland). 
