OF BRITISH PLANTS. 35 



BUTTER-DOCK, from its leaves being used for lapping 

 butter, whence the Scotch name of it, Smair-dock, 



Ruinex obtusifolius, L. 



BUTTER-FLOWER, Du. boter-bloem, G. schmalz-blume, from 

 a mistaken notion that it gives butter a yellow colour; or, 

 as Fuchs tells us, p. 878, from the greasy surface of the 

 petals, Ranunculus, L. 



BUTTER-JAGS, an obscure name, perhaps in the first place 

 bottle-jacks, Lotus corniculatus, L. 



BUTTERWORT, from its greasy feel, " as if," says W. 

 Coles, " melted butter had been poured over it," 



Pinguicula vulgaris, L. 



CABBAGE, Fr. caboche, It. cabttccio, from cabo, a head, 

 being a variety of colewort that forms a round head, 



Brassica capitata, L. 



ST. PATRICK'S, Saxifraga umbrosa, L. 



,, SEA-, Crambe maritima, L. 



CALAMI NT, Gr. icdkt], good, and fuvBij, mint, as being a 

 valuable antidote to the bite of serpents, 



Calamintha officinalis, L. 



CALATHIAN VIOLET, L. Viola calathiana, from L. cala- 

 thus, Gr. /cakados, basket, a name given by Pliny to some 

 other very different plant, but by a mistake of Ruellius 

 transferred to Gentiana Pneumonanthe, L. 



CALE, COLE, or COLEWORT, A.S. cawl, and caichcyrt, Du. 



kool, L. caulis, a stalk, a name given to a thick-stemmed 



variety, the kohl-rabi, and extended to the other kinds of 



cabbage. " The Apothecaries and common Herbarists do 



call it caulis of the goodnesse of the stalke," says Gerarde, 



p. 249. Brassica oleracea, L. 



,, SEA-, Crarnbe maritima, L. 



CALTROPS, A.S. cottrappe, in the romance of K. Alisan- 



der, 1, 6070, calketrappen, M.Lat. calcitrapa, from L, calx, 



a heel, and M.Lat. trappa, a snare, a name first applied to 



