50 POPULAR NAMES 



CLOWN'S LUNG-WORT, from its use in pulmonary disease, 

 Lathrsea Squamaria, L. 



CLUB-MOSS, a mossy plant with a club-like inflorescence, 



Lycopodium, L. 



CLUB-RUSH, from its club-like inflorescence, the reed- 

 mace, Typha latifolia, L. 



COB-NUT, from cob, a thick lump, A.S. copp, head, so 

 called from being used in a game called cob-nut, 



Corylus Avellana, L. var. grandis. 



COCK'S COMB, of botanists, from the shape of the calyx, 

 Khinanthus Crista galli, L. 



COCK'S COMB, of Hill's, and some other herbals, from the 

 shape of its legume, the sainfoin, Onobrychis sativa, L. 



COCK'S COMB of the gardeners, Celosia cristata, L. 



COCK'S-COMB-GRASS, from the shape of the panicle, 



Cynosurus echinatus, L. 



COCK'S-POOT, from the shape of the spike, 



Dactylis glomerata, L. 



COCK'S-HEAD, from the shape of the legume, the sainfoin, 



Onobrychis sativa, L. 



COCKS, from children fighting the flower-stems one 

 against the other. See KEMPS. Plantago lanceolata, L. 



COCKLE, A.S. coccel, L. caucalis, Gr. /cau/caXt?, some 

 umbelliferous plant, which Clusius says (p. ccii.) was the 

 same as Sau/co? cvypia. Cockle or Cokyl was used by 

 Wycliffe and other old writers in the sense of a weed 

 generally, but in later works has been appropriated to the 

 gith, or corn pink. Agrostemma Githago, L. 



CODLIN, originally coddling, from coddle, to stew or boil 

 lightly, a boiling apple, an apple for coddling or boiling, 

 a term used in Shakspeare, (T. N. i. 5,) of an immature 

 apple, such as would require cooking to be eaten, but now 

 applied to a particular variety, Pyrus Malus, L. var. 



CODLINS AND CREAM, from the odour of its flowers, 

 or of its fresh shoots, or according to Threlkeld, of its 



