ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Chestnut, Horse. The general name for ^smlus HippocaManum^ 
L., probably on account of the size and coarseness of its fruit com- 
pared with that of the common chestnut, to which it bears a certain 
resemblance. Parkinson (Theatr.), however, says: ‘The horse ches- 
nuU are given in the East Country, and so through all Turkie, unto 
horses to cure them of the cough, shortnesse of winde, and such other 
diseases.’ Its old Latin name was Castanea equina. Prior, p. 44. 
Chestnut, Spanish, or Sweet. The general name for Castanea 
vesca, L. 
Chevisaunce. Glieiranthus Cheiri, L. — In Spenser’s Shep. Cal. 
April, 1. 142, ‘ The pretty pawnee and the chevisaunce, evidently a 
misprint for chevisaunce, comfort, heart’s-ease, the cheiri or wallflower, 
the plant to which the name of heart’s-ease was originally given.’ 
— Prior, p. 44. 
Chevorell. Antliriseiis Cerefolium, Hoffm. — Hal. 
Chewbark. Ulmus montana, Sm. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ^ The 
inner bark of the elm, for a certain pleasant clamminess, is chewed 
by children, and hence the tree is called Chewharh.’ — Id. 
Chibbals (A-K). Onions. — Hal. Wr. ; who also give ‘ Chibe, a 
kind of onion. North. ^ In Dev. a small onion is called Chippie, 
Chiche. ‘ (A-H.). A dwarf pea or vetch. “ Pease cliiches or chich- 
peasan.” Nomenclator.’ — Wr. 
Chichelings, or Cichlings. Vetches. — Norths Hal. Wr. . Probably 
Vicia sativa, L. 
Chicken’s-meat. Stellaria media, L. — E. Anglia, Eorby; Norf. and 
Suff. Holl. ‘ Chichne-mete occurs in an early list of plants in MS. 
Harl. 978, translated by intiba, the endive. Dross corn is also called 
chicken’s-meat.’ — Hal. Wr. 
Chickenweed. (1) Stellaria media, L. — Turn. Lib. In Prompt. 
Parv. Chekynwede and Chekenwede. dies., Cumb., Norf. ‘ Because 
chicken and birds love to pick the seed thereof.’ — Coles, A. in E., 294. 
(2) Cerastium triviale. Link. — 8 . Cumb. 
(3) Smecio vulgaris, L. — Yks. (Bedale), Field, June 5, 1876; because 
so much used for feeding birds. 
Chickenwort. Stellaria media, L. — Scotl. Jamieson ; Forf. El. 
Forf. ; E. Bord. Bot, E. Bord. 
Chickling. See Cichling. 
Chick Pea. Cicer arietinum, L. — Wr. Prior, p. 44. 
Chickweed. Stellaria media, L. — Turn. Lib., and almost universally 
at the present day. ‘ Because chickens and birds love to pick the 
seed thereof,’ — Coles, A. in E., 294. But the name was formerly 
applied to manj'' small plants of similar habit, such as the annual 
species of Veronica, as in Coles, A. in E. , 293, Hudson’s FI. Anglica, 
and Bullein, where V. agresiis is figured as ‘ Chickenweede.’ Lyte 
includes under the name the plants already mentioned and several 
others, such as Stellaria aquatica, Scop., Arenaria trinervis, L., and 
A. serpyllifolia, L. 
