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Custard-cups. Epilohimn hirsutum, L. — Sal. (Wellington). 
Custin. ‘A wild plum.’ — Som. Hal. Wr. 
Cutberdill, or Cutberdole. Acanthus mollis, L. — Ger. Appx. 
Cutfinger. (1) Valeriana pyrenaica, L. — ‘ISTostrates vulneribus levior- 
ibus folia trita imponunt, unde a nonnullis Cut- finger api)ellatur 
(bortensem intellige).’ — E. Cat. 
(2) Finca major, L. — Oxf. The leaves are commonly applied to 
chapped hands, and are said to have healing properties. 
Cut-grass. Leersiaoryzoides, Sw. Bromfield in Phyt. iii. 682. — This 
grass is ‘ remarkable for extreme asperity, which makes some pre- 
caution requisite to avoid cutting the hand, an accident that is said 
to befal the women employed in weeding it out of the rice-fields in 
Lombardy.’ — Id. 
Cut-heal. Valeriana ojficinalis, L., according to Prior (p. 60), but 
more likely V. pyrenaica, L. — It would appear that Folemonium 
ccaruleum, L. , was formerly believed to share the healing properties of 
the Valerians among which it was classed. Turner (Names) says of 
it : ‘ Thys is oure commune Valerian that we use agaynste cuttes 
with a blewe floure.’ 
Cutleaf. Valeriana pyrenaica, L. — S. Bucks. 
Cut- weed. A name applied to various marine Algae, as Fucus 
vesiculosus, L., F. serratus, L., and Laminaria digitata, Lam. — Cat. 
Phaimaceutical Society’s Museum. 
Cuvy. Laminaria digitata,, Lam. — Orkneys. ‘ The Orkney kelp-men 
have assigned pecuhar names to each, calling the ordinary L. digitata 
Cuvy.' — Harvey’s Phycologia Britannica, t. 338. 
Cyderach. Polygonum Hydropiper, L. — Prior, p. 61. 
Cyphel. Sempervivum tectorum, L. — With. ed. iv. North, Wr. 
Holl. Eay. This name is usually given in modern books to Cherleria 
sedoides, L. Prior, p. 61. 
Cypress. (1) Cupressus sempervirens, L. — Prior, p. 61. 
(2) Tamarix gallica, L. — Cornw. Hooker’s Brit. PI. 
(3) Cyperus longus, L. — Ger. A contraction of the Latin name. 
Cypress, Field. Ajuga Chamoepitys, L. — Lyte. Ger. Appx. 
Cypress, Garden. (1) Artemisia maritima, L. — ‘In English, of 
some women of the countrey, garden cypresse.' — Ger. 
(2) In Lyte, Santolina Chamcecyparissias, L. 
Cypress-moss. Lycopodium alpinum, L. — Park. Theatr. 
Cypress Root, or Sweet C. Cyperus longus, L. — Prior, p. 61. 
Cypress Spurge. Eupho7'hia Cypaidssias, L. — Lyte. 
Dabberlack. Alaida esculenta, Grev. — Nairn, Jamieson. 
