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these popular names, and the word seems really to allude 

 to a very humble part of dress. In the Stockholm medical 

 M.S. it is spelt kousloppe, and evidently means " hoseflap," 

 from Flem. kouss, hose, and lopp, flap. Such a name 

 could scarcely have been given in the first place to the 

 plant now called " cowslip," but was very applicable to 

 the large oval flannelly leaf of the mullein, from which it 

 has been transferred to it through the Latin name Verbas- 

 cum, which comprehended both the cowslip and the mullein. 

 This view is confirmed by its French name braiette. 



Primula veris, L. 



FRENCH- or MOUNTAIN-, P. Auricula, L. 



JERUSALEM-, Pulmonaria officinalis, L. 



Cow's LUNGWORT, see BULLOCK'S LUNGWORT. 



COW-PARSLEY, or COW-WEED, 



Cha3rophyllum sylvestre, L. 



COW-PARSNEP, Heracleum Sphondylium, L. 



COW-QUAKE, a word that would seem to have arisen 

 from a confusion in German works between queck 

 lively, a name given to the couch grasses, and quag, 

 cattle. Thus Bauhin tells us (Th. Bot. p. 9), that Queck- 

 gras, quitch, is so called by the Saxons [the people of 

 Lower Germany] from the cattle being fond of it : "a 

 jumentis quse ea herba delectantur ; Queck enirn ipsis 

 'jumentum' significat." The quaking grass is ranged by 

 Tragus under these queck-graser, and the similarity of G. 

 queck and E. quake has fixed the name upon this species. 

 The four words are in fact identical, etymologically speak- 

 ing, and mean "alive;" whence their various applications, 

 as queck, quitch, quake, and quag, to objects in which life 

 and motion are conspicuous. Briza media, L. 



COW-WEED, see Cow PARSLBY. 



COW-WHEAT, from its seed resembling wheat, but being 

 worthless as food for man, Melampyrum, L. 



CRAB, Sc. scrab, from A.S. scrobb, a shrub, implying a 



