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hemlocks. There is nothing related of St. Chad or Cedde, 

 that in any way connects him with these weeds. 



Brassica Sinapistrum, Boiss. 



CHEESEBOULS, the red poppy, from the shape of the ripe 

 capsule resembling that of round cheeses, 



Papaver Rhoeas, L. 



CHEESE-RENNET, or -RUNNING, a name given to the 

 yellow lady's bedstraw from its supposed power of curd- 

 ling milk. " Galium inde nomen sortitum est suum, 

 quod lac coagulet." Matth. 1. iv. c. 91. A.S. cys-gertm, 

 from cys, cheese, and gerun, a word connected with G. 

 rinnen and gerinnm, Sw. ronna, coagulate. 



Galium verum, L. 



CHEET, the name of a spurious oil that in Gerarde's 

 time was palmed off upon the public for the Spanish oil of 

 Sesamum. See below, GOLD OF PLEASURE. 



CHEIR, WILD-, the wallflower, from its Latin name, 



Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. 



CHEQUER-TREE, the service-tree, so called in Evelyn's 

 Sylva, and in Sussex at the present day, from Choker, the 

 choke-pear, being an antique pronunciation of the word 

 which we find in the humorous old ballad of The Frere and 

 the Boy, 1. 115, 



" "Whan my fader gyveth me mete, 



She wolde theron that I were cheke." i.e. choaked. 

 See CHOKE-PEAR. Sorbus domestica, L. 



CHERRY, from O.E. CHERISE, as it is spelt in Chaucer, 

 a word that was mistaken for a plural of cherry, Fr. cerise, 

 It. ciriegia, L. cerasea, adj. of cerasus, Gr. Kepatros, a name 

 brought with the tree from Asia Minor, 



Prunus Cerasus, L. 

 BIRD'S-, a sort fit for birds only, 



Prunus Padus, L. 



WILD-, or Gean, Prunus avium, L. 



CHERRY-WOOD, in Jacob's PI. Faversh. the water-elder, 



Viburnum Opulus, L. 



