ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Cave. A cabbage. — North, Hal. 
Cawle, Sea. Convolvulus Soldanella, L. — Lyte, i. e. Sea Cole 
(which see). 
Caxes. See Cashes. 
Cean. Currant. — Mid-Yhs. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 5, where is the 
following note ; ‘ Curn [ku'n, kun’], or Cun [kuon*], or Coan [kuoh*n], 
or Cean [kih'n], or Con [kon', kaon‘], currant. One of those words 
which are thus distinctively varied in pronunciation. The last four 
are general rural forms, [kihm] being the broad dialect one. The 
last [kon% kaon’] are perhaps most heard in Mid-Yorks. The varia- 
tions of the first form are not unheard in the rural parts, but are, 
strictly, the town forms.’ 
Cegge, i. e. seg or sedge, of which it is merely another spelling. 
(1) Iris pseudacorus, L. — Hal. 
(2) A general term for Car ex. — Prompt. Parv. 
Celandine. (1) Chelidonium majus, L. — ‘Angli vocant Celendyne 
aut Celidony.’ — Turn. Lib. E. Cornw. (Celantine) ; Olou. ; E. Bord. 
Bot. E. Bord. ; Prior, p. 40. ‘ Chelidonium, that is to say Swallow- 
herbe, bycause (as Plinie writeth) it was first found out by swallowes, 
and hath healed the eyes and restored sight to their young ones, that 
have had harme in their eyes, or have bene blinde.’ — Lyte. 
(2) Ranunculus Ficaria, L. — Grete Herball. N. Bucks., Olou. 
Celandine, Brave. A name invented by Lyte for Caltha palustris, L. 
Celandine, Great. Chelidonium majus, L. — Lyte. 
Celandine, Lesser, or Small. Ranunculus Ficaria, L. — Lyte ; 
Prior, p. 40. ‘ The small celandine was so called bycause that it be- 
ginneth to spring and to floure at the comming of the swallowes, and 
withereth at their return.’ — Lyte. 
‘ There’s a flower that shall be mine, 
’Tis the little celandine .^ — ^Wordsworth. 
Celery. Apium graveolens, L. — In Mart. Mill, it is usually spelt 
Celeri. Prior, p. 41. 
Celery, Wild. (1) Apium graveolens, L. — Wight, Phyt. iii. 413. 
(2) Smyrnium Olusatrum, L. — ‘ In the Isle of Wight, ... by 
a strange confusion of ideas, it shares with the genuine Apium grave- 
olens the appellation of wild celery, and by that only is it known.’ — 
Phyt. iii. 413, 0. S. 
Celery-seed. Rumex ohtusifolius, L. — Suss. 
Celidony, or Celydony. Chelidonium majus, L. — Prompt. Parv., 
Turn. Lib. 
CenclefFe. Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, L. — Ger. Appx. Hal. Wr. 
Centaury : in Prompt. Parv., and in Turn. Lib. Centory, and in Ger. 
and other old authors Centorie. (1) Erythrcea Centaurium, L. — 
Cumh. Yks. 
(2) Centaur ea nigra, L. — Prior, p. 41. 
