48 POPULAR NAMES 



CLIFF-PINK, from its growing upon Cheddar Cliffs in 

 Somersetshire, Dianthus csesius, L. 



CLITE, CLITHE, GLIDERS, and CLITHEREN, a name of the 

 goosegrass, probably from Oliver, by a change, not unfre- 

 quent, of v to th ; or from Du. klederen, G. kleider, clothes ; 

 see CLEAVERS. Galium Aparine, L. 



CLIMBERS, from its habit of climbering, or attaching 

 itself to objects, the Fr. grimper, originally identical with 

 griper, clutch, a use of the word found in Tusser, p. 109, 



" Set plenty of boughs among runcival pease, 



To climber thereon, and to branch at their ease." 

 the Virgin's bower, Clematis Vitalba, L. 



CLOG-WEED, a shortened form of keyc-logge, as it is spelt 

 in Turner of Tottenham, quoted by Way in a note to Pr. 

 Pm. p. 278, a word formed of keck, a hollow stalk, and 

 lock, A.S. leac, a plant, and signifying the kex-plant, 



Heracleum Sphondylium, L. 



CLOSE SCIENCES, the Dame's Violet, called, as Parkinson 

 tells us (Th. Bot. p. 628), the single variety of it, Single 

 Sciney, and the double variety, Close Sciney, from which 

 Gerarde made this ridiculous name. Sciney, no doubt, has 

 arisen from its specific name, Damascena, understood as 

 Darnels Scena. Hesperis matronalis, L. 



CLOT-BUR, the bur-dock, called in Chaucer and in Pr. 

 Pm. CLOTE, sometimes spelt incorrectly CLOD-BUR, A.S. 

 clatte, G. kktte, a bur that sticks to clothes, a word con- 

 nected with many others beginning with cl or kl, such as 

 cleave, climb, cling, kletten. The name may possibly have 

 some connection with clout, through a confusion between 

 the Latin name of the plant, lappa, and Du. lap, G. lappen, 

 a clout, whence our English verb lap ; as in a line of Pierce 

 Plowman : 



" Thereon lay a litel chylde lapped in chutes." 



Arctium Lappa, L. 



