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- COACHMAN’S BuTrtrons. The Field Scabious,. 
Scabiosa arvensis (Queen Camel). 
CoBBLER’s Wax. Several correspondents at 
Donhead (Wilts) give me this as a local name for 
the Sumach, Rhus. 
CoB-wEB. A_ correspondent at Broadstone 
(Dorset) gives me this as a local name for the 
Houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. The name is 
probably due in some measure to the fact that 
there is a closely related plant, grown in gardens, 
known as the Cobweb House-leek, Sempervivum 
arachnoideum, on account of the long white hairs 
at the tips of the leaves, which cross and pre- 
sent the appearance of a plant over which a 
spider has trailed its net. 
CocKAGEE (g hard). A kind of small hard sou. 
cider apple, in use in the wick of Englandr 
(JENNINGS, and Wilts.) 
Cock Grass. (1) Ribwort Plantain. Plantago 
lanceolata. Mr. Elworthy says: ‘* The only name 
used by farmers for this, the commonest variety 
of the Plantains’’ (West Somerset). 
(2) Perennial Rye-grass or Red Darnel, Lolium 
perenne. Children, taking a blade in one hand, 
run up the sprouts on each side with the finger 
and thumb of the other hand, and boys say, 
‘* What shall I be?” and girls ‘‘ Who shall I 
marry ? ” 
A tinker ? a tailer ? 
A soldier ? a sailor ? 
A rich man ? a poor man ? 
A ’pothecary ? a thief ? 
(PULMAN). 
Many other questions are asked and 
answered by Somerset boys and girls in the same 
way. I do not think it necessary to set out all 
the forms in detail in this list, but the following 
selection, kindly sent me by Dr. Watson, will 
give a fair idea of the lines on which they run :— 
The usual rendering is ‘ Tinker, tailor, soldier, 
sailor, rich man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.” 
About Culmhead the last two are replaced by 
*‘oentleman, farmer.’ Other renderings are to 
live in a “‘ big-house, little-house, pig-sty, barn,’” 
to be married in “silk, satin, cotton, rag”’; 
to go to church in a “ coach, carriage, wheel- 
barrow, mud-cart ’’; to be married “ this year, 
next year, sometime, never.” 
CocKLE Butrons. The seed Head. of the 
Burdock, Arctium majus. One of our Somerset 
names for the Burdecck is ‘‘ Cuckold,’’ of which 
_** Cockle ’’ is a corruption. 
COCKLE-BUR or CLOT-BUR. Mr. T. W. Cowan 
gives me this as a local name for the Agrimony, 
Agrimonia Eupatoria. See also CLOT-BUR. 
CockLEs. (1) Periwinkle. Vinca major (and 
V. minor). Rey. Hilderic Friend attempts to 
