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CREWKERNE Boys. Several correspondents at 
Winsham apply this name to various kinds of 
Thistles, naming particularly the Marsh Plume, 
Cnicus palustris, and the Scotch, Onopordum 
Acanthium, the latter of which does not, however, 
grow wild in the neighbourhood. 
CREWKERNE WARRIORS. A Taunton corres- 
pondent gives me this name for Thistles, as above. 
CRIBBLES. Onions grown from bulbs (8.W. 
Wilts. Somerset border). 
Crimson Lapy. <A _ correspondent at Ever- 
ereech gives this as a local name for the Carnation, 
Dianthus Caryophyllus. 
Crimsons. Mr. Edward Vivian, of Trow- 
bridge, gives me this as a local name for Ten- 
week Stocks, Watthiola annua, no matter of what 
colour. The name is used indiscriminately, just 
as we say ‘‘ Pinks,”’ even of white ones. 
CRINCHLING. Holloway, in his Dictionary of 
Provincialisms, gives this as a Gloacestershire 
name for ‘‘ A small apple such as can be easily 
scranched between the teeth.” 
CRINOLINE. <A correspondent at Martock gives 
me this as a local name for the Fuchsia. 
CRISLING. (1) A small, black, very sour wild 
plum (F. T. Elworthy). 
(2) A small shrivelled immature apple (Ff. T. 
Elworthy). 
CRISTEN. <A small kind of plum (Barnes). See 
CHRISTEN. 
CROCKS AND KertTTLES. The seeds of the Box, 
Buxus sempervirens (South Petherton and Ever- 
shot). I understand a game is played with these 
seeds in some of our villages, but do not know 
what form the game takes. 
CROCODILE. Rev. Hilderic Friend says the 
small variety of Holly which grows in hedgerows, 
and is exceedingly brittle, chiefly bears this 
name, which is comnion in Somerset, Jlex 
Aquifolium. 
Crocus JAPONICA. A Somersetshire corrup- 
tion of Corchorus japonica, now known as Kerria 
-japonica, a shrub which bears orange-coloured 
blossoms ; also known as Summer Roses. 
Cross FLOWER. (1) Milkwort, Polygala 
vulgaris (West Somerset). Dr. Prior says “ from 
its flowering in Cross-week.”’ 
(2) A correspondent at Hatch Beauchamp 
gives this as a local name for the Wallflower, 
_Cheiranthus Cheiri, which may owe the name 
to the fact that (being one of the Crucifera) its 
four petals are arranged in the form of a cross. 
Crow Berris. Wild Hyacinth or Bluebell, 
Scilla non-scripta (S.W. Wilts, Hants borde). 
