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GREY-BEARD. Wild Clematis or Traveller’s 
Joy, Clematis Vitalba, in seed (N.W. Wilts). 
GREYGLE, or GREYG)LE. The Bluebell, Scilla 
non-scripta (Wilts and Dorset). ; 
GREY MILLET. A number of correspondents in 
various parts of the district send me this name 
for the Common Gromwell, Lithospermium 
officinale. 
GRIBBLE. (1) A Wild Apple-tree, or one 
raised from seed. The fruit of the Wild or 
Seedling Apple-tree, Pyrus Malus. 
(2) Mr. W. S. Price tells me this is also the 
name of a cultivated variety of apple—a sweet, 
soft fruit, with a slightly bitter flavour. 
() A young Blackthorn, or a Knobby 
Walking-stick made of it (Dcrset). 
(4) Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., tells me that 
a former gardener of his (a Devonshire man) 
always called a shoot from a tree or a short 
eutting from one a “ Gribble.” 
GRIGGLES. (1) The Bluebell, Scilla non- 
scripta (East Somerset and Dorset). See GREYGLE. 
(2) The Karly Purple Orchis, Orchis mascula, 
or Spotted Orchis, O. maculata (East Somerset 
and Dorset). 
(3) Smail Worthless Apples, remaining on the 
tree after the crop has been gathered in (N.W. 
Wilts). In some cider counties the boys who 
collect these apples after the principal ones are 
gathered call it GRIGGLING. 
GRIM THE COLLIER. The Orange Hawkweed, 
Hieracium aurantiacum. Dr. Prior says from 
the name of a humorous comedy popular in 
Queen Elizabeth’s reign, ‘‘ Grimm the Collier 
of Croydon”; given to the plant from its black 
smutty involucre. 
GRINDSTONE APPLE. The Crab Apple; used 
to sharpen reap-hooks, its acid biting into the 
steel (Wilts). 
GRINSEL. Groundsel, Senecio vulgaris (Trow- 
bridge). 
GRouND AsH. (1) An Ash Stick growing from 
the ground, and much tougher than a branch of 
the tree. 
(2) Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., gives me this as 
a local name for the Common Goutweed, Agopo- 
dium Podagraria, and tells me that he had a 
gardener (a Devonshire man) who always called it 
POTASH. 
GROUND FuRZE. Mrs. Day, of North Petherton, 
gives me this as a name for the Rest Harrow, 
Ononis repens. 
Grounp Ivy. This is the general English 
name for Nepeta hederacea, and would not appear 
in this list but for the fact that Miss Shute, late 
