120 DICTIONARY OF POPULAE NAMES CLOUDBERRY 



potatoTumj a small tree of the Nnx Vomica family (Loganiacese) ; 

 native of India. It has liard wood, wliicli is used for various 

 economic purposes ; but it is most remarkable for its fruit, whicli 

 is black, about tbe size of a clierry, and contains one seed. The 

 seeds are dried, and then used to clear muddy water, which is 

 effected by rubbing one of them round the vessel that is to 

 contain water, which, being then poured in, quickly becomes 

 clear, but by what agency is not known to us. 



Cloudberry, {See Bramble.) 



Clove, the name of the well-known, sweet-smelling garden 

 flower, the Clove Pink {DiantJms caryo;p'hyllus), of which the 

 Carnation or Gilliflower is a variety. It is a grass-leaved her- 

 baceous plant of the Pink family (Caryophyllacese). Its name 

 is derived from the French word " clou," English " clout," a 

 nan, from the fancied likeness of the flower of the Clove to a 

 broad-headed nail ; and the specific name cao'"yo;p'hylhis appears 

 to have been given by Tournefort (a French botanist, who died 

 in 1708) or by some earlier botanist, the grass-like leaves of the 

 Clove being likened to many of the short-leaved species of the 

 genus Carex and its allies, the leaves of which are hard with 

 sharp edges, often when incautiously handled causing wounds 

 difficult to heal, termed Caries, hence the word caryophyllus. 

 This word is, however, not restricted to the Clove Pink, for 

 in consequence of the dried flower -buds of a tree, native 

 of the Moluccas, being in the form of a nail, they are also 

 called Cloves, and although there is no resemblance between 

 the Clove Pink and the Clove of the Moluccas, nevertheless 

 Tournefort's name of Oaryophylhis aromatims was adopted by 

 early botanists for the well-known spice called Cloves, which 

 are the unexpanded dried flowers of a tree of the Myrtle family 

 (Myrtacese), attaining a height of 20 or 30 feet, with smooth, 

 laurel-hke, elliptical leaves, 3 to 5 inches in length, and flowers 

 produced in bunches (corymbs), which are collected before 

 opening by beating and shaking the trees ; the foot-stalks being 

 jointed, they readily part, and are caught on cloths spread 

 below, and after drying constitute the well-known Cloves of 



