OF BRITISH PLANTS. 45 



whence called Chickweed." Threlkeld. " On en consomme 

 beaucoup pour la nourriture des oiseaux de voliere." 

 Duchesne, s. 1. plantes utiles, p. 226. 



Stellaria media, L. 



also, in Hudson, Veronica arvensis, and agrestis, L. 

 MOUSE-EAR-, Cerastium vulgatum, Huds. 



WINTER-GREEN-, Trientalis europsea, L. 



CHICORY, L. Cichorium, Gr. Kixppn or Kl xP lov > an 

 Egyptian word. " Intybum in ^Egypto Cichoriuin vocant." 

 Plin. N.H. 1. xx. c. 8. C. Intybus, L. 



CHIER, WILD-, see CHEVISAUNCE, the wallflower, from 

 an Arabic word, Keiri, Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. 



CHILDING CUDWEED, a parturient cudweed, 



Filago germanica, L. 



CHILDING PINK, a parturient pink, one that is called so 

 from its throwing out younger and smaller flowers like a 

 family of little children round it. Childing is an expression 

 analogous to ' calving,' ' kittening/ etc., and occurs fre- 

 quently in old authors. Thus in Lev. xii. 3, Wycliffe's 

 version has, " If a woman childip a male child :" and in 

 Gen. iv, 1, 2, " Eve childide Cain, and eft sche childide his 

 brother Abel." Dianthus prolifer, L. 



CHIVES, in R. Turner's Bot. p. 175, GIVES, Fr. dees, 

 derived by Diez from L. cepa, 



Allium Schoenoprasum, L. 



CHOKE-PEAR, Fr. poire d'estranguillon, L. pyrum strangu- 

 latorium, Ger. p. 1270, a name given to a wild pear so hard 

 and austere as to choak ; with an allusion, perhaps, to the 

 death of Drusus, a son of the Emperor Claudius, which 

 was caused by a fruit of this character, 



Pyrus communis, L. 



CHRISTOPHER, see HERB CHRISTOPHER, a name given to 

 several different plants. 



CHRISTMAS, from being used for decoration at that season, 

 the holly, Ilex Aquifolium, L. 



