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A DICTIONARY OP 
Cheats. *Wild oats.’ — Ldnc. Brogd. Bromiis secalinus, L., may 
be intended. 
Cheddar Pink. From its place of growth. — Dianthus ccBsius, L. — 
Prior, p. 42. 
Chedlock. Sinapis arvensis^ L. — Yks. (Whitby), E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 2 ; Prior, p. 42. 
Cheese, but more frequently used in the plural. Cheeses. Fruit of 
Malva sylvestris, L., and (less generally) M. rotundifoUa, L. — Hal. Wr. 
Bucks.; Camb. ; dies. ; S. TF. Curnb.; Dev. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Ess. ; 
Glou. ; Hants. ; Herts. ; Leic . ; Middx. ; Norf. ; Nhamp. ; Sal. ; Suff. ; 
Suss. Holl. ; Warw. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 6 ; Wilts. (Devizes) ; TForc. ; E. 
Ill's. This is a very general name among children for the fruit of 
the mallow. Clare alludes to 
‘ The sitting down when school was o’er 
Upon the threshold of the door. 
Picking from mallows, sport to please. 
The crumpled seed we call a cheese.^ 
The cheeses have an insipid mucilaginous taste, and are eaten by 
children. In the United States certain ‘ succulent excrescences ’ on 
Azalea nudijlora, L., are called siuamp-cheeses by boys : they are caused 
by ‘ the parts of the flower becoming enlarged and fleshy, and gener- 
ally consolidated into a shapeless mass.’ — Darlington’s American 
Weeds and Useful Plants, p. 214. 
Cheese-and-Bread, Bird’s. Oxalis Acetosella, L. — Ciimb. 
Cheese, Dutch. Fruit of Malva rotundifoUa^ L. — dies. 
Cheese, Sheep’s. The root of Triticum reymis, L. — Scotl. (Loth., 
Eoxb.), Jamieson. 
Cheesebowl. (1) Papaver somniferum, L. — Ger. The name seems 
to belong more especially to this species of poppy, and occurs in 
various forms and spellings. Hal. quotes from MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, 
f . 9 : ‘We sende the a male fulle of chesebolle sede in takennyng therof. 
Luke if thou may nombir and telle alle thir chessebolle sedez, and if 
thou do thatt, thane maye the folke of oure oste be nowmerd.’ 
Jamieson has cliesbol and cliesbow. diesboke (Hal. ‘The chyne, the 
cholet, and the cliesboke chene,’ MS. Cott. Calig. A. ii. f. 1) is probably 
a misspelling of the same word. Prompt. Parv. has chesebolle, with 
the following foot-note: ‘A chesse bolle, papaver, cinolus.’ — Cath. 
Ang. The Promptorium gives also chybolle, cinollus. ‘ Papaver est 
herba somnifera, Anglice a chebole.’ — Ort. Toe., ‘ dieese bowls, flores 
papaveris hort. a similitudine aliqua vasculorum caseaceorum sic dicti.’ 
— Skinner. 
(2) Papaver Bhoeas, L. — Coles, A. of S. ; Prior, p. 43. 
Cheese-cake. (1) Fruit of Malva sylvestris, L. — Ches., Dors., Line., 
IForc., Yks. 
(2) Lotus corniculatus, 1 j. — Wore., Yks. (Tadcaster). Grose gives the 
name Cheese-cake Grass as a northern name for the plant, which is 
no doubt the ‘ trefoil,’ which Hal. and Wr. say is so called. In Yks. 
(York) it is also called Cheese-cake Flowers. 
