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Crawberry. (1) Empetrum nigrum, L. — Aherdeensh. ; E. Bord. 
Bot. E. Bord. 
(2) Vacdnium Oxycoccos, L. — This ‘ must be the crawberry of Tan- 
nahill : — 
“ He pu’d me the crawberry, ripe frae the boggy fen.” 
Works, p. 31.’ — Bot. E. Bord. 
Crawcrooks. Empetrum nigrum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Jamieson gives Craw-croops as a north of Scotland name for the 
plant. 
Craw-crowfoot. Ranunculus hulhosus, L. — Ger. Index. 
Craw-dulse. Rhodymenia ciliata. Gray. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Craw-feet. (1) Scilla nidans, Sni. — Hal. Wr. 
(2) Orchis mascula, L., and 0. Morio, L. — Yhs. 
Craw-flower. A name used by the Scotch poet Tannahill, who 
probably intended Scilla nutans, Sm. See Bot. E. Bord., p. 55. 
Craw -foot. Ranunculus acris, L., and R. repens, L. — Bcotl. 
Jamieson. 
Crawn-berries. Vacdnium Oxycoccos, L. — Cumh. (Winderwath). 
Crawnebs. Antlnjllis mdneraria, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Craw-peas. LatUiyrus prat ensis, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Crawps. Raphanus Raplianistrum, L. — Berm. Bot. E. Bord. 
Craw-taes. (1) Ranunculus acris, ~L., and R. repens, L. — Scotl. 
Jamieson; Edinb. 
(2) Lotus corniculatus, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Edinb. 
Craw-tees. (1) Scilla mitans, Sm. — ‘In the north partes Graio-teesd 
— Turn. Names. E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Edinb. 
(2) Orchis mascula, L. — N. Cumb. 
Crayfery. Pulmonaria officinalis, L. — Grete Herball. 
Crayflsh. Gerard invented this curious name for Doronicum Par- 
dalianches, L., on account of the shape of the roots, which he says 
‘ are thicke and manie, very crookedly crossing and tangling one 
within another, resembhng a scorpion Sith I woulde be glad 
that our English women might know how to call it, they may terme 
Doronicum by this name. Crayfish.^ The name was not generally 
adopted, though it is given in the index to Park. Theatr. 
Crazy. (1) Hal. and Wr. give ^ Crazeij, crow’s-foot, South;' and 
‘ Craizey, the buttercup, Wilts.' The name seems to be commonly 
applied in Qlou. (Grose), Som., Wilts., and Warw. to the three species 
of Ranunculus commonly known as buttercups, R. Ficaria being also 
included in Wilts. In N. & Q. 5, v. 364, it is stated that ‘ the common 
buttercup {Ranunculus acris) bears among rustics in the midland 
counties the vulgar name of crazy This meadow plant is con- 
sidered an “ insane herb ” by country people, for I heard lately from 
a trustworthy source that the smell of the flowers was considered to 
produce madness.’ R. repens is in Olou. called Creeping Crazey 
