OF BRITISH PLANTS. 39 



CARNATION-GRASS, certain sedges, from the resemblance 

 of their leaves to those of the carnation, more especially 

 the Carex glauca, Scop., and C. panicea, L. 



CARPENTER'S-HERB, from its corolla seen in profile being 

 shaped like a bill-hook, and, on the doctrine of signatures, 

 supposed to heal wounds from edged tools, the self-heal, 



Prunella vulgaris, L. 



CARRAWAY, M.Lat, carui semina, seeds of careum, Gr. 

 Kapov, Carian, so called from its native country, Caria. 

 This genitive case was adopted for the name of the seed, 

 as in Arundel MS. 42, f. 55, "Carui growej? mykel in 

 merys in j>e feld, and in drye placys of gode erj?e." Way's 

 Pr. Pm. p. 333. Carum carui, L. 



CARRAGEEN-MOSS, a sea-weed so called from an Irish word 

 that means " a little rock," the name of some place in Ire- 

 land where it was first collected for sale, 



Chondrus crispus, Lyngb. 



CARROT, Fr. carotte, L. carota, Daucus Carota, L. 



CARSE, an old spelling of cress, A.S. ccers. 



CASE-WEED, or CASSE-WEED, so called in allusion to its 

 little purse-like capsules, from Fr. caisse, L. capsa, a 

 money-box, Du. cas, Capsella Bursa pastoris, L. 



CASSIDONY, L. stcechas sidonia, from Sidon, where the 

 plant is indigenous, Lavandula Stcechas, L. 



CAT'S-EAR, from the shape of its leaves, 



Hypochseris maculata, L. 



CAT'S-FOOT, from its soft flower-heads, 



Gnaphalium dioicum, L. 

 also, from the shape of its leaves, the ground ivy, 



Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. 



CATS-MILK, from its milky juice oozing in drops, as 

 milk from the small teats of a cat, 



Euphorbia helioscopia, L. 



CAT-MINT, or CAT-NEP, " because, 1 ' says Gerarde, p. 544, 

 " cats are very much delighted herewith : for the smell of 



