ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Cambridgeshire Oaks. ‘Willows are so called as a reflection on 
this county for its marshy soil, where only those trees will grow; 
this is, however, not true of the whole county.’ — Local Proverbs in 
Appx. to Grose’s Gloss. 
Cambuck. ‘ The dry stalks of dead plants, as of hemlock.’ — East. 
Hal. Wr. ; Suff. Prior, p. 36. 
Camel’s Straw. Juneus communis, Mey. — Lyte. 
Camil. Anthemis nohilis, L. — Som. Wr. Hal. 
Camlicks. The dried stems of Heracleum Sphondylium, L., and 
Chceropliyllum temidum, L. — Suff. 
Camline. A name in With. ed. ii. for Gamelina sativa, Cr. 
Cammock, or Cammick. (1) Ononis arvensis, L. — Lyte, Wr. ; S. 
Bucks. ; S. Dev. ; Dors. Hal. ; Wight, FI. Yect. ; Suss. FI. Vect. 
‘ communlike in contrees Cammoke and weedes, 
Foulen the fruyt in the feld, ther thei growen togideres.’ 
Vision of Piers Plowman, 1. 13584. 
Dr. Prior (p. 36) considers Peucedanum officinale, L., to be intended 
here, but Ononis is more probably meant. The Peucedanum is a rare 
plant of salt marshes, and would not occur with weeds in a field. Dr. 
Prior in his identification follows Mr. Cockayne (Leechdoms, ii. 374), 
and it would appear that there is much uncertainty as to what plant 
was intended originally under this name. Confer also Prior, ed. i. p. 
37 ; and Leechdoms, iii. 317. Aubrey, as quoted by Halliwell (sub v. 
Heaving), says : ‘ Where ground beares naturally store of chamocks 
the cheese that is made off from such ground the dayry women cannot 
keep from heaving.’ — MS. Eoyal Soc., p. 300. Ononis is accounted 
injurious to cheese in the Isle of Wight. ‘ In Sussex, and other parts 
of England, where it is reputed to communicate its nauseous goat- 
like odour to the milk and cheese of cows pastured where it abounds ; 
cheese so tainted is said in these counties to be cammockyJ — FI. Yect,, 
p. 114. The word may have had the same signification as Cambuck 
{q. V.)', but Nares, who gives Camock as ‘a crooked tree, a crooked 
beam,’ thinks the Ononis was ‘ so named from the crookedness of its 
roots.’ In the sense of a crooked tree the word is used in Lyiys 
Euphues, p. 46 : ‘ The cammocke the more it is bowed the better it 
serveth.’ 
(2) Hypericum perforatum, L., Senecio Jacohcea, L., PuUcaria dysen- 
terica, L. — Hants. (New Forest), Cockayne, ii. 374. ‘ In Hampshire 
almost any yellow flower is called CammockJ 
(3) Achillea Millefolium, L. — Dev. 
Cammock Whin. Ononis arvensis, L. — Cockayne, ii. 374. 
Camomile, Camomill, or Chamomile -, in Turn. Names Cammomyle, 
in Turn. Lib. Camomyle ; in Tusser (E. D. S. D. 28, p. 95) Camamel. 
Anthemis nohilis, L. — Prior, p. 42. 
Camomile, Blue. Aster Tripolium,'lj . — Lyte. ‘Women that dwell 
by the seaside call it . . . hlew camomill.'* — Ger. 
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