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A DICTIONARY OF 
Cotton-thistle. The usual ■book-name for Onopordum Acanthium, 
L. — Lj'te, Prior, p. 233. 
Cotton-tree. (1) Viburnum Lant ana, 1^. — ‘ I enquired of a coimtry 
man in Essex if he knew any name of this ; he answered, it was 
called the Cotton-tree, by reason of the softnesse of the leayes.’ — Ger. 
Emac. 1490. Ess. Ger. Emac. ; Kent. 
(2) ‘ The female of Eopulus nigra is called the Cotton-tree at Bury 
St. Edmunds ’ the seeds being ‘ enveloped in a beautiful 
white cotton.’ — Loudon, Arboretum. Yks. 
Cotton-weed. Turn. Herb. Ger. employs the name in an extended 
sense for the species of GnapliaUum and allied plants. Diotis mari- 
tima, Cass. — E. Cat. Prior, p. 54. 
Conch, or Conch-grass. A name given to several creeping grasses, 
but most usually to Triticum repens, L. — Ger. Hal. Wr. Bucks. ; 
GIou. ; Kent, E. P). S. Gloss. C. 3 ; Midd. ; E. Yks. E. D. S. Gloss, 
C. 6; Wariu. (‘large coarse grass’). Prior, p. 54. Holdich (Essay on 
Weeds) mentions ‘two other grasses which have strong creeping roots, 
and are in differently called Couch ’ — viz. Holcus mollis, L., and Boa 
pratensis, L,, the latter of which seems to be the plant figured and 
described by Lyte as Couch-grass. In Martyn’s Elora Eustica the 
name is also applied to Avena elatior, L. See Quitch. 
Conch, Black. See Black Conch. 
Conch, Onion. Avena elatior, L. — West. In allusion to the tuberous 
onion-shaped nodes of the root-stock. 
Conch-grass. See Conch. 
Conch-grass, White. Triticum repens, L. — Pratt. 
Conchwheat. Triticum repens, L. — With. ed. iv. 
Conghwort. Tussila.go Far far a, L. — Culpeper. Prior, p. 54. 
Coni. ‘ Cole or cabbage.’ — Bom. Hal. 
Conntryman’s Treacle. ‘An old name for Ruta graveolensd — 
Treas. Bot. 
Conntry-pepper. Sedum acre, L. — Ger. From its extremely pungent 
flavoui’. 
Conrake. ‘ A plant, cauliculus.’ — Wr. 
Conrtship-and-Matrimony. Spircea Ulmaria, L. — Cumb. ‘From 
the scent of the flower before and after being bruised.’ — E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 8. 
Cons. A kex. — Lane. Wr, 
Conslop. Primula veris, L. — Wr. 
Cont-fit {i. e. Colt’s-foot). Tussilago Farfara, L. — Irel. (Belfast), 
- FI. Belf. 
Coventree. Viburnum Lantana, L. — Bucks. (Wycombe) ; Wilts. 
Aubrey. ‘ Coven-tree common about Chalk e and Cranbourn Chase ; 
the carters doe make their whippes of it.’ — Aubrey. 
