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places this name is given to the Horse-flower or 
Lesser-flowered Yellow Cow-wheat, Melampyrum 
sylvaticum. 
CrAB’s Craw. (1) The Water-Soldier, 
Stratiotes Aloides. 
(2) Spotted Persicaria or Red-legs, Polygonum 
Persicaria. 
Crack Nut. Rev. Hilderic Friend gives this 
as a Devonshire name for the fruit of the Hazel, 
Corylus Avellana. 
CRAMMICK. Rest Harrow, Ononis repens (Kast 
and Mid-Somerset). 
CRANE Bint. A_ corcespondent at Hatch 
Beauchamp gives me this as a local name for the 
Iris—also known in the same locality, as DucK’s- 
BILL. 
CRANNOCK. <A_ correspondent at Keinton 
Mandeville gives me this as a local name for the 
Furze or Gorse, Ulex ewropeus. 
CRAWLERS. A correspondent at Stalbridge 
gives me this as a local name for Scurvy Grass, 
Cochlearia officinalis. Dr. Downes points out 
that this is a maritime plant, very rarely found 
inland, and it is improbable that it grows at 
Stalbridge. 
Crazy. (1) A name applied in North Somer- 
set and Wilts to Buttercups in general. A 
correspondent at Doshead (Wilts) tells me that 
certain fields in that district are said to be 
** smothered in Crazies.”’ 
(2) The Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris. 
(3) A correspondent at Frome gives it as a 
name for the Yellow Water Lily, Nymphea 
lutea. Dr. Prior says ‘* Apparently a cov~ruption 
of CHRIST’s EYE, Lat. oculus Christi the medieval 
name of the Marigold, whizh, through the con- 
fusion among old write:s betweer Caltha and 
Calendula, has been transferred to the Marsh 
Marigold and thence to other Ranunculacee.”’ 
Crazy Berr. (1) The general 1ame all over 
Wilts for the Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris. 
(2) Applied also in S.W. Wilts to various 
Buttercups and to the Lesser Celardine, Ranun- 
culus Ficaria. 
(3) Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthe- 
mum (Hampiworth, Wilts). 
(4) A ecrrespondent at Tatworth gives it as 
a local name for the Water Lily, Nympheea lutea. 
CRAZY BeEtTsEY. Marsh Maricold, Caltha 
palustris (Little Largford, Wilts). 
Crazy Cup. A correspondent at Chew Magna. 
gives me this as a local name for the Lesser 
Celandine, Ranunculus Ficaria. 
Crazy Littes. A correspondent at Batcombe 
(Dorset) gives me this as a local name for the 
Marsh Marigold, Caltha palusiris. 
