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GooKkoo FLOWER. See Cuckoo FLOWER. 
GoosE AND GANDER. (1) Common Vetch, 
Vicia cracca (Wells). 
(2) Mr. W.C. Baker, late of Maunsel, gives me 
this as a local name for the Red Campion, Lychnis 
dioica. Mr. W. D. Miller points out that the 
name dioica implies that the stamens and pistils 
are borne on different flowers, and generally (as 
in this case) on different plants, and this method 
of guarding against self-fertilisation on the part 
of the Campion may perhaps account for this 
local name. 
GoosE AND GosLines. (1) <A correspondent at 
Rodden (near Frome) gives me this as a local 
name for several species of Orchis, particularly 
O. morio. It is also applied to the Early Purple 
Orchis, O. mascula. See GANDER GAUZE and 
GANDERGOSSES. 
(2) Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., tells me that in 
other places the name is applied to catkins of the 
Willow, especially of Salix caprea. 
GOOSEBERRY PIE. (1) Great Hairy Willow- 
herb, Epilobium hirsutum; more often called 
APPLE PIE. 
(2) Rest Harrow, Ononis (Wells). 
(3) A correspondent at Bridgwater gives me 
this as a local name for the White Campion, 
Lychnis alba. 
GOOSEBERRY PupDING. Several correspon- 
dents at Donhead (Wilts) give this as a local name 
for oue or other of the species of Mallow, Malva. 
GoosE Bru. (1) A common name for 
Galium Aparine; more often called GOOsE- 
GRASS, which see. 
(). A correspondent at  Broadwindsor 
gives ita a local name for the Herb Robert, 
Geranium Robertianum. 
GOOsE CHICKEN. A correspondent at Sidbury 
(Devon) gives me this as a local name for the 
catkins of Willow or Sallow. See Gosxines (1). 
Goosn-FiLors. (1) The Daffodil, Narcissus 
Pseudo-Narcissus ; a very common name in West 
Somerset. 
(2) Britten and Holland in their Dictionary of 
English Plant Names give this as a name of the 
Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, in Devonshire. 
GOOsE-GANDER. Same as GoosEy-GANDER. 
GoosE-Goe. A very general name for a 
Gooseberry ; in Wilts a green Gooseberry. 
GoosE-Grass. (1) A very general name for 
the Bedstraw, commonly called CLEAVERS, 
Galium Aparine, from the fact of its being used 
as a food for young geese. 
(2) A number of correspondents give it as a 
- name for the Silverweed, Potentilla Anserina. See 
GANDER-GRASS. 
