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Fuzz Batu. A puff ball, Lycoperdon bovista 
and other species of Lycoperdon (Dorset and Wilts). 
GALL OF THE EARTH. A _ correspondent at 
Oake sends me this as a local name for the 
Common Centaury, Centaurium umbellatum. See 
EARTH GALL, 
GALLOW GRaAss. Cant name for hemp—also 
called Neckweed—as furnishing halters for the 
gibbet. Cannabis sativa. 
GALLOws Fruit. <A correspondent at Dowlish 
Wake gives me this as a local name for the 
Fuchsia, 
GANDER GAUZE. A Wiltshire name for the 
Early Purple Orchis, Orchis mascula. Mr. 
Edward Vivian tells me that in the Trowbridge 
district the use cf this name is almost always 
used. The plant is often called GooSE AND Gos- 
LINGS — frcm a fancied resemblance of the 
flowers to the shape of little goslings. See 
FRIBD CANDLESTICKS and GANDERGOSSES. 
GANDERGOSSES.—Mr. T. W. Cowan tells me 
that this and GOOSE AND GOSLINGS are old names 
for the Green-winged Orcbis, O. morio, and be has 
not known them applied to O. mascula, «lthough 
this may be the case in Wiltshire, as st ®ea in the 
paragrapk above. 
GANDER Grass. An old name for the Silver- 
weed, Potentilla Anserina, the silvery white 
leaves of which may be found on almost every 
road side. Sometimes called GOOsEWEED. The 
specific name is from Latin Anser = a goose, and 
Was given in conseiuence of that bird being fond 
of the plant. 
GANDI GosLInGs. Early Purple Orchis, Orchis 
mascula (N.W. Wilts). 
GANG FLOWER or GANG WEED. The Milkwort, 
Polygala vulgaris, frem its blossoming in Gang- 
week, three days before the Ascension, and being 
employed to make garlands used in the Rogation 
proces ions ; for the same reason it was formerly 
called Cross, Rogation, or Precession Flower. 
Gare MoutH. A muck less general form of 
Gap Movuts, which see. 
GAPING JAcK. Yellow Toadflax, Linaria vul- 
garis (North Cheriton). 
Gap MovutTH. (1) A common name for the 
Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus. 
(2) Yellow Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris. 
(3) The Yellow Monkey Flower, Mimulus 
Langsdorffii; also the cultivated species of 
Mimulus, including the Musk, 
(4) Several young people at Sampford Arurdel 
give it as a local name for the Foxglove, Digitalis 
purpurea. 
