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Medicago sativa, Trigonella Fcenum-ge^cum, 

 and Trifolium resupinatum. 

 Coagulate — 



The substances employed in the coagulation of milk are, 

 milk that has already been coagulated, rennet, and the milky 

 juice of a Euphorbia. 



Cobra — 



Although a Cobra is common in the Badghis, viz., Naia 

 oxiAXA, it goes by the same native name as Vipera obtusa, 

 viz., shutar-mar, and not by the Sanscrit and more southern 

 name phan-dhdr ; yet it is curious enough to note that an Arum 

 and a Helicophyllum, owing to their prominent spathes, are 

 called phandr, no doubt a contraction from phan-dhdr. 

 Naturalists say that this Cobra does not exhibit a hood ; if 

 this is the case it accounts for the name, " the hooded one," 

 not being applied to it. 



Cochineal — the dye stuff; Jcarmiz. 



It is imported into these regions froni Bokhara and Persia, 

 the finest it is said coming from Bokhara. 



Cocoon — of the silk- worm, pela, lolla, hokh-i-pela, 

 gala, goza, kawa. 



Codonocephalum Peacockianum, Aitch. et Hemsletj. Com- 

 posite. 



Landdr. This shrub, from four to six feet in height, 

 covers great expanses of country with its splendid foliage, 

 which is greedily fed upon by goats and sheep. The tracts 

 of the country covered with this herbage form grand feeding 

 grounds for these animals ; the shrub might, I believe, be 

 introduced into this country profitably for feeding sheep. 



Colchicum speciosum, Stev. Liliacbe. 

 I met with this occasionally throughout the Badghis, 

 Harirud, and Khorasan, but only in fruit. The corms are 

 used to mix with those of Merendera persica. 



COLOCYNTH CiTRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS. 



Colza — Rape, Brassica campestris. 



