42 POPULAR NAMES 



from its application to chafings of the skin in the human 

 subject, or, as Kay expresses it in Cat. Plant. Cant., 

 " quoniam ad intertrigines valet ;" the cud-weed, 



Gnaphalium germanicum, W. 



CHAFF-WEED, A.S. ceaf and weod, from its small chaffy 

 leaves, Centunculus minimus, L. 



CHALOTS, see SHALLOT. 



CHAMOMILE, L. chamcemelum, Gr. %a/j,aifjbr)\ov, earth- 

 apple, from the odour of its flowers, 



Anthemis nobilis, L. 

 WILD-, Matricaria chainomilla, L. 



CHAMPIGNON, Agaricus oreades, B. 



CHANTARELLE, from the French, a mushroom so called, 

 Cantharellus cibarius, Fr. 



CHARLOCK, CARLOCK, or CALLOCK, in Scotland SKEL- 

 LOCH, A.S. cerlice, which seems to be either formed from 

 cerre, turn, and to indicate a vicarious plant, a weed of 

 fallow ground ; or, as is more probable, from L. chcero- 

 phyllum, and thus connected with G. sckierling. In a MS. 

 of the fourteenth century in Bel. Ant. ii. 80, it is spelt 

 szerlock, and translated caroil, chervil, which seems to con- 

 firm this view of its origin. The name is at present given 

 to a wild mustard. Brassica Sinapistrum, Boiss. 



CHECKERED LILY, from the markings on the petals, 

 Fritillaria Meleagris, L. 



CHEDDAR PINK, from its place of growth in Somerset- 

 shire, on the cliffs of that picturesque ravine, 



Dianthus csesius, L. 



CHEDLOCK, CHADLOCK, or KEDLOCK, A.S. cedeleac, from 

 leac, a plant, and cede, which seems to be the same as 

 L.Germ. kiidick, kettich, koddick, Da. kidike, related, per- 

 haps, to Da. kiede, annoy. In the eastern counties chad 

 means the refuse sifted from wheat. The name is now 

 confounded with charlock, but in Westmacott's Scripture 

 Herbal, p. 86, and other old works, is assigned to the 



