36 POPULAR NAMES 



the caltrop used in war to impede the progress of cavalry, 

 and thence to the spiny heads of this plant, 



Centaurea Calcitrapa, L. 



CALVES-FOOT, Fl. calfsvoet, Fr. pied de veau, from the 

 shape of the leaf, Arum maculatum, L. 



CALVES-SNOUT, the snapdragon, Fr. mufle de veau, from 

 a fancied resemblance in the seed vessel. " Antirrhinon," 

 says Cordus, " fructum fert vitulino capiti similem, tarn 

 exquisita similitudine, ut etiam os et nares appareant." 

 He illustrates his statement with a caricature of the seed- 

 vessel, which, as he gives it, certainly bears a most extra- 

 ordinary likeness to a calf's skull. 



Antirrhinum majus, L. 



CALVERKEYS, in Awbrey's Wilts, probably the same as 

 the Culverkeys of Walton's Angler, names no longer known. 

 CAMMOCK, A.S. cammttc, -ec, or -oc, a name given by old 

 writers to two very different plants, a Peucedanum, and an 

 Ononis. In the former sense it occurs in Piers Plowman's 

 Vision, 1. 13584 : 



" For communlike in contrees Cammoke and wedes 



Poulen the fruyt in the feld, ther thei growen togideres." 

 In this sense of a Peucedanum it is found in several 

 MSS. quoted by 0. Cockayne in Leechdoms, v. ii., p. 374. 

 The term kambuck is still given in Suffolk to the kexes. 



Peucedanum officinale, ^. 



,, In the herbalists cammock means whin or rest- 

 harrow, Ononis arvensis, L. 



CAMPANELLE, It. campanetta, a little bell, dim. of cam- 

 pana, a name given by Bulleyn to the hedge-bell, 



Convolvulus sepium, L. 



CAMPION, from having been used in the chaplets with 

 which champions at the public games were crowned. It. 

 campione, M.Lat. campio, from campus, a battle-field. 

 ,, BLADDER-, from its inflated calyx, 



Silene inflata, L. 



