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CLOUD-BERRY, from its growing on the cloudy tops of 

 mountains, Ger. p. 1368, Rubus Charnsemorus, L. 



CLOVE GILLIFLOWER, from its scent of clove, Sp. clavo, 

 a nail, the shape of the spice so called, 



Dianthus Caryophyllus, L. 



CLOVER, or, as it is more correctly spelt in all the herbals, 

 and all our older writers, and in Lowland Scotch, CLAVER, 

 Du. klaver, A.S. ctofer and clcefra, Da. klever. It is 

 evidently a noun in the plural number, probably a Frisian 

 word, and means " clubs," from L. clava, and refers to the 

 clava trinodis of Hercules. It is in fact the club of our 

 cards, Fr. trefle, which is so named from its resemblance 

 in outline to a leaf with three leaflets. Trifolium, L. 

 ALSIKE-, Trif. hybridum, L. 



BIRDSFOOT-, from its claw-like legumes, 

 Lotus corniculatus, and Trigonella ornithopodioides, L. 

 ,, CRIMSON-, Trif. incarnatum, L. 



,, DUTCH-, Trif. repens, L. 



,, HARESFOOT-, from its furry soft capitules, 



Trif. arvense, L. 



,, HARTS-, Melilotus officinalis, L. 



HEART-, from the markings of the leaf, 



Medicago maculata, L. 

 ,, HOP-, from the shape of its fruiting capitules, 



Trif. agrarium, and procumbens, L. 

 HORNED-, of W. Turner, the lucerne, 



Medicago sativa, L. 



,, MEADOW-, Trif. pratense, L. 



,, STRAWBERRY-, from the shape of its capitules, when 

 in fruit, with the calcyces pink and inflated, 



Trif. fragiferum, L. 



CLOWN'S ALLHEAL or WOUNDWORT, so called by 

 Gerarde, p. 852, because a countryman, who had cut him- 

 self to the bone with a scythe, healed the wound with it 

 in seven days, Stachys palustris, L. . 



