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Grass WAVEs. A school-girl at Paulton gives 
me this as a local name for the Dog’s Mercury, 
Mercurialis perennis, but ten other young people 
in the same school give it as GREEN WAVES. 
Grassy Dalisigs. Mr. W.S. Price (Wellington) 
gives me this as a local name for the common 
Daffodil. See Gracy DaAIsIEs. 
GRAzIES. A Yeovil school-boy gives me this 
as a local name for the Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris. See CRAZIES. 
GREATER CELANDINE. This is the usua 
English name of Chelidonium majuvs, of the 
Poppy family, and would not appear in this list 
but for the tact that a number of young people 
at Mells tell me that the name is there given to the 
Marsh Marigcld, Caltha pa-ustris. 
GREAT MOREL (or MORELLE). Several corres- 
pondents give me this as a local name for the 
Deadly Nightshade, Atropa Belladonna. It is a 
fairly well-known name, and is given on account 
of the dark purple berries. 
GREAT THUNDERBOLT. An Evershot school- 
boy gives me this as a local name for the Great 
Water Plantain, Alisma Plantago-aquatica. 
GREENS. The comprehensive name for any 
kind of Kale or Turnip tops, but never applied 
to Cabbage or Cauliflower. 
GREEN BEsom. Broom, Cytisus  scoparius 
(West Somerset). See BEsom. 
GREEN EyEs. Miss Ella Ford, of Melplash 
(Dorset), gives me this as a local name for the 
Annual Knawel, Scleranthus annu 8s, a small 
plant bearing green flowers found in cornfields, but 
noticed by few except the botanist. 
GREEN GROWER. An Axminster correspondent 
gives me this as a local name for the Wood Spurge, 
Euphorbia amygdaloides. 
GREEN Lity. Green Hellebore, Helleborus 
viridis (N.W. Wilts). 
GREEN SAucE. (1) The Common Sorrel or 
Sour-dcck, Rvmex <Acetosa (Devon). Mr. T. 
W. Cowan, F.L.S., ‘ells m that in the North 
“Green Sauce’? means Sour-dock or Sorrel 
mixed with vinegar and sugar. 
(2) The Wood Sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella (Taun- 
ton and Devon). 
GREEN WAVES. Dog’s Mercury, Mercurialis 
perennis (Paulton). See GRAss WAVES. 
GREEN-Woop. A correspondent at Furley 
gives me this as a lccal name for the Broom, 
Cystisus scoparius. Dr. Watson writes ‘‘ Green- 
weed is the name of a Broom-like herb. I suggest 
there has here been a corruption of Green-weed 
to Green-wood (this has occurred) and then an 
extension.” 
