HABITS AND LATIN NAMES OF BRITISH PLANTS. 
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Chlora perfoliata, Perfoliate Yellow-wort, Yellow Centaury.—The whole plant 
is of a glaucous colour, and very bitter; it is considered to possess the same 
medical virtues as Gentiana and Erythrcea. The Rev. G. E. Smith observes, 
that the central flower expands early in the morning, and closes at noon; the 
lateral flowers then expand, and continue open until sunset. 
Chrysanthemum.—■X^vo-tzvOepov, from x% vsos gold, and av9s[zos a flower, from the 
bright-yellow colour of its blossoms. 
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum , Great White Ox-eye, Moon Daisy, Maudlin- 
wort.—The flavour of the whole plant is herbaceous, slightly aromatic, but its 
properties are not important. Like many other herbs, mixed with Grasses, it 
forms a part of the hay-crop. 
Chrysanthemum segetum , Corn Marigold, Goldins, Yellow Ox-eye.*—However 
odious to the farmer, especially in his Turnip-fields, this is indisputably a splendid 
weed, almost as handsome as Ch. coronarium. It can only be eradicated by 
hand, before the seeds ripen. Withering states that it was imported into 
Sweden along with corn from Jutland, about the end of the sixteenth century, 
and that in Denmark there is a law to oblige farmers to root it up from their 
corn-fields. 
Chrysocoma. —From xf v<ros i gold, and. xo^w, hair; not inapplicable to the general 
colour of the flower; but probably applied by Dioscorides to plants of which that 
circumstance was more obviously characteristic. 
Chrysocoma Linosyris , Flax-leaved Goldylocks, German Goldylocks.—This 
plant, is a native of Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, &c.; it was first 
discovered as a native of Britain in 1812, by the Rev. Mr. Holbech. In a 
young state the stem and under surface of the leaves are covered with a soft 
cottony down, which nearly or quite disappears by the time the plant is in flower. 
When handled it gives out a faint aromatic smell. It is not a showy plant, yet 
its bright yellow flowers, which are produced in abundance in a cultivated state, 
render it not unworthy a place in the flower-garden. 
*“ Buddie” in Norfolk. In Scotland, “Yellow Gowans,’’ “Quills,” “ Gools.” In Kent, 
“ Yellow Bottle.” North of Fngland, “ Gowany,” “ Gules.” 
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