ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 87 
Canker-berry. ‘ The hip ; hence canker-rose, the rose that grows 
upon the brier \_Rosa canina, L.]/ — Kent, E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3. 
Canker-flower. Rosa canina, L. — Heywood, Love’s Mistress (1636). 
Canker-root. ‘ The common sorrel.’ — Nemnich. 
Canker-rose. (1) Papaver Rhoeas, L. (Du. Ranker -hloemeii). — Ger. 
Index ; East, Hal. ; Prior, p. 37. 
(2) Rosa canina, L. — Dev., Ess. See Canker-berry. 
Cankerweed. Senecio Jacolcea, L. — E. Anglia, Eorby, who includes 
S. sylvaticus and S. tenuifolius under the name ; E. Norf. Marshall, 
E. D. S. Gloss. B. 3 ; Var. dial. Hal. 
Cankerwort. (1) Leontodon Taraxacum, L. — Ger. See Canker (4). 
(2) Linaria spuria, Mill., and L. Elatine, Mill. — Ger. Emac. See 
Cancerwort. 
Can-leaves. See Candock (1). 
Canna-down, or Cannach. Eriopliorum vagincdum, L. — Gael. 
canriach. Jamieson. 
Canterbury Bell. (1) The common garden name for Camp)anida 
medium, L. ‘ Of some about London Canterbury bels, but improperly, 
for that there is another kind of bell flower growing in Kent, about 
Canterbury, which may more fitly be called Canterburie bels, bicause 
they grow there more plentifully than in any other countrie.’ — Ger. 
p. 163. See (2). The name probably arose from the resemblance of 
the flowers to certain small bells worn by pilgrims to Canterbury, or 
rather worn on the trappings of their horses, mentioned by J ohn E ox 
in Martyr, i. 168. See E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3, p. 68. It was stated in 
the Church Times for April, 1878, that the Canterbury Bell was the 
still recognised badge of the Archbishops of Canterbury; and an 
enquiry into the authenticity of tbis statement elicited a letter signed 
B. C. Curteis, from which the following is an extract : — ‘ The Canter- 
bury bell was not a badge of the Archbishops of Canterbury, but only 
a badge worn by persons who were going on a pilgrimage to the shrine 
of St. Thomas at Canterbury. I have a print of one of these bells 
which was found with several other leaden figures and tokens belonging 
to St. Thomas in the bed of the river when London Bridge was pulled 
down. It has an inscription Campana Thome on the outer edge, and 
is about the size of an ordinary handbell, with a flat top, on which is 
an open handle, through which a strap could easily be passed to attach 
it to a horse’s collar. Giraldus Cambrensis mentions that Canterbury 
brooches were worn in the twelfth century. It is, therefore, probable 
that the horse bells also dated from the time of St. Thomas’s canon- 
ization in 1173, when his shrine first began to be frequented, rather 
than from the time of the translation and first jubilee, fifty years 
later. These Canterbury bells are mentioned in the Examination of 
Master W. Thorpe Preste, accused of heresy before Archbishop of 
Canterbury, mde Wordsworth’s “ Eccl. Biog.” vol. i. p. 168: “Some 
other pilgrims will have with them bagpipes ; so that in everie towne 
they come through, what with the noise of their piping, and with the 
sound of their singing, and the jangling of their Canterburie bells. 
