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 52 POPULAR NAMES 



CONVAL LILY, L. lilium convallium, lily of combes, incor- 

 rectly translated " Lily of the valley." The expression is 

 used in the Vulgate translation of the Bible (Cant. ii. 1), 

 and is appropriately given to this plant, as the flower of 

 hollows surrounded by hills, its usual place of growth, 

 although certainly not the flower meant by the royal poet. 



Convallaria majalis, L. 



COP-ROSE, from it red rose-like flower and the cop- or 

 button-like shape of its capsule, Papaver Rhreas, L. 



CORAL-ROOT, from its branching and jointed root-stock 

 resembling white coral, Corallorhiza innata, R.B. 



CORAL-WORT, from its white root, and the " divers small 

 round knobs thereon resembling the knaggy eminences of 

 coral," W. Coles, p. 56, Dentaria bulbifera, L. 



CORD-GRASS, called so by Turner, because he " saw that 

 rishe in the islands of East Friesland, and the people there 

 make ropes of that rishe, and thache their houses also wyth 

 the same," Spartina stricta, Sin. 



CORIANDER, a plant, says Cogan, p. 26, "commonly 

 called Coliander," Or. xopiavvov, of /copis, a bug, from its 

 odour, Coriandrum sativum, L. 



CORK, the orchil, Norw. korkje, a corruption of an 

 Arabic word into one more familiar, 



Roccella tinctoria, D.C. 

 in the Highlands, Lecanora tartarea, Ach. 



CORMEILLE, CORR, or CARMYLIE, Gael, caermeal, the 

 heath-pea, a word adopted from the Gaelic, 



Orobus tuberosus, L. 



CORN, one of several words, which being common to 

 widely separated branches of the Ind-European race, prove 

 the practice of tillage among our ancestors before they left 

 their first home in central Asia, Skr. karana, Go. kaurn, 

 L. granum, Russ. zerno, a term applied to the several 

 kinds of grain most commonly used in their respective 

 countries. Max Miiller refers the word to Skr. kurna, 

 ground. 



