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GENTIEMAN’S FINGER. Cuckoo-pint, Arum 
maculatum (N.W. Wilts). 
GENTLEMAN’S PIN CUSHION. A Somerton «orres 
pondent gives me this as a local name for the 
Field Seabious, Scabiosa arvensis. 
GENTLEMAN’S PURSE. Quite a number or 
young people at Paulton give me this as a loeal 
name for the Shepherd’s Purse, Capsella Bursa- 
pastoris. 
GENTLEMAN TaILoRs. A _ correspondent at 
East Lulworth (Dorset) gives me this as a loeal 
name for the Pansy, Viola tricolor. 
GENTLEMEN AND LApIEs. (1) A Crewkerne lady 
gives me this as a local name for the Wild Pansy, 
Viola arvensis. 
(2) Dr. Watson tells me that this name is 
occasionally used instead of LoRpDs AND LADIES 
for Arum maculatum. 
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES’ FINGERS. Cuckoo- 
pint, Arum maculatum (S.W. Wilts), 
GENTLEMEN’S Caps. Several correspondents 
at Long Sutton give me this as a local name for the 
Tulip, Tulipa Gesneriana. 
GERMANS AND ENGLISH. A correspoadent at 
Watchet gives me this as a lozal name for the 
Celery-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus sceleratus. 
GuHost Grass. Mr. W. C. Baker, late of 
Ma ansel, gives me this as a local name for Pampas 
Grass, Gynerium argenteum. 
Guost Poppy. A correspondent at Stockland 
(Deven) gives me this as a local name for the 
Shirley Poppy. 
GIBBLES. Onions grown from bulbs (Wilts). 
Jennings and Helloway spell the name Grppor 
and define it as a sprout cf an onion the second 
year. Compare CHIBBLES. 
Gicksy. A dried nettle (East Somerset), A 
simile frequently beard in that part of the country 
is * Zoo light’s a gicksy.”’ Also the stalk cf the 
Wild Parsley, out of which primitive pipes were 
made, See Kex and KEcKsy. 
Gippy GANDER. The Early Puarple Orchis, 
Orchis mascula, and the Green-winged Meadow 
Orchis, Orchis morio, and other common species of 
Orcfis, are so called in the Vale of Blackmore., 
See GoosEyY GANDER. 
GicGaRY. Daffodil. Narcissus Pseudo-Nar- 
cissus (Devon), Edward Capern, the poet- 
writing in the Western Times, March 29th, 1879, 
quoted one as saying: ‘Don’t bring they 
GIGGARYS into the house: vor if ’ee du, es shaant 
ha’ a siagle chick.’ 
GILAWFER. It wo.ld be easy to write a column 
on this name, which is spelt and pronounced in 
