40 POPULAR NAMES 



it is so pleasant unto them, that they rub themselves upon 

 it, and wallow or tumble in it, and also feed on the branches 

 very greedily ;" which singular statement the good old 

 herbalist copied from Dodoens (i. 4, 14), without, perhaps, 

 ascertaining its truth. Nepeta cataria, L. 



CAT'S-TAIL, from its long cylindrical furry spikes, 



Typha latifolia, L. 



also from its cylindrical spike, Phleum pratense, L. 

 CATCH- FLY, from its glutinous stalks, 



the genus Silene, and Lychnis viscaria, L. 

 CATCH-WEED, a weed that catches the passer by, 



Galium Aparine, L. 



CAULIFLOWER, L. of Bauhin's Pinax, brassica cauliflora ; 

 of Parkinson, Par., p. 505, caulis florida; from L. caulis, 

 cole, and flores, flowers, formerly called cole-flower, coley- 

 flowers, and cole-flourey, 



Brassica oleracea, L. var. florida. 

 CELANDINE, L. chelidonium, Gr. ^eXtBoviov from ^eTuS&w, 

 swallow; "not," says Gerarde, p. 911, "because it first 

 springeth at the coming in of the swallowes, or dieth when 

 they go away, for, as we have saide, it may be founde all 

 the yeare, but because some holde opinion, that with this 

 herbe the dams restore sight to their young ones, when 

 their eies be put out ;" an old notion quoted from Dodoens 

 (i. 2. 29), and copied by him from Pliny (1. xxv. c. i), and 

 by Pliny from Aristotle. This wonderful fact is received 

 and repeated by every botanical writer of those days, and 

 is embodied by the author of the Schola Salernitana, 1. 217, 

 and by Macer, c. 52, in the couplet, 



" Csecatis pullis hac lumina mater hirundo, 



(Plinius ut scripsit) quamvis sint eruta, reddit." 

 GREATER-, Chelidonium majns, L. 



LESSER-, from its blossoming at the season when 

 the swallow arrives, the pilewort, 



Ranunculus Ficaria, L. 



