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 18 A GLOSSARY OF DEVONSHIRE PLANT NAMEa ihis name. It is lather a Somerset than a Devonshiie designation, but is common. Crocus Japonioa, Corehorus Japonicus, L. {Of. Choris Japo- nioa) Crowdt-kit, Serqphulana ctqiuUica, L. An interesting word, coming from the Welsh f or Fiddla {Of, Halliwell, s.y. ; Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; Lectures on Welsh Philology ^ especially pp. 114, 115; Diez, Bomance Dictionary^ s.v. ^'Eota") This plant is known as '^ Fiddles," and  Fiddle-wood " in some places, so called because the stems are by children stripped of their leaves and scraped across each other fiddle-&shion, when they produce a squeaking noise.*' (See Britten, 8.y. Fiddle-wood, p. 181 ; Crowdt-kit-o'-thb-wall, Sedum acrej L., and other varieties, of Stonecrop. For the reason just given ; the highly-polished leaves or spikes squeak when rubbed together. The name is only known among old people now, as very few know what *' Crowdy-kit" means ; but an old woman at Ipplepen, well-versed in herbs (eighty-eight years of age, and still yarlij^ both gave me the name and knew how it was to be explained. Her family used to be very musical, and she could remember hearing the fiddle called crowdy. Crow-flowbb, (1) ScUla mUatiSy Sm. ** Us calls it ^nld 'iercind (hyacinth), or crow-flower,'' said my informant {Cf. Britten, p. 131-2.) (2) Orchis maseiday L., as in some other places. Crown Imperial, FritUldria imperialism L. I should have omitted this, but found that neither Prior nor Britten had inserted it. I have heard the name in Devonshire as the only one by means of which the plant was known in some parts. Its almost universal Continental names correspond with this. In Flora Historical i pp. 247 seq.y will be found a long list of foreign names. Crownation. a common name for Carnation among old people. (Of. Canaibshun.) Crumple Lilt, Lilium nmrtagon and L, tiynnum, L. On ac- count of the pretty habit of turning back the petals. Crumpling. A stunted appla (Devo^ishire Courtship, p. 64.) Cucumbers, the seed-vessels of Iris Bendacorus, L. They grow very plentifully in South Devon, and when green bear a close resemblance to small cucumbers. Cuckoo, Cuckoo-flower, (1) Orchis mascula, L., or Purple Orchis. (2) Scilla nutans, Sm., or Wild Hyacuith — blue and white. Lychnis diuma, SibtL Rose Campion or Poor EobiiL Lychnis Flos-euculi, L. Eagged Biobin. (5) Cardamine pratensisy L. Lady's Smock or Milkmaid ; with a number of others. (Trans, Devon. Assoc xiiL 205, 206 ; Britten, pp. 133, 134; Prior, p. 59; cf infra, Gbuky-flowrr ; Borders of Tamar and Tavy, i. p. 273.) Cullaok. An Onion. Wright, given by Britten, p. 136. (3)
 * Crowder, Fiddler ; " Devonshire Comishipy p. 64.)