GOAT'S RUE 



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GOBELIN 



bases, taper to a long point. The 

 solitary flower head is yellow, with 

 7 or 8 slender bracts. The head 

 opens about 4 a.m. and closes as 

 soon as pollinated, whence the 

 popular name John-go-to-bed-at- 

 noon. The 

 fruits form a 

 " clock " like 

 those of the 

 dandelion, but 

 'arger and 



Goafs-beard. Left, the 



the growing 

 head of fruit 



herb ; 



more beautiful, the parachute 

 of each fruit having its arms 

 feathered. The salsify (T. porri- 

 folius), grown as an esculent root, 

 belongs to the same genus. Its 

 flowers are purple. 



Goat's Rue (Galega officinalis). 

 Perennial herb of the natural order 

 Leguminosae. A native of S. 



mining, large openings or stalls 

 are left in the coal face, separated 

 from- one another by a wall of coal 

 which is left standing. When all 

 the eoeil has been got from a stall, 

 it is filled with refuse or waste 

 material that may be at hand. 

 Material so employed is called by the 

 miner gob, or goaf, though the lat- 

 ter term is more generally reserved 

 for the stall itself from which 

 the coal has been removed, the 

 plural "goaves" 

 being the form 

 generally used. 

 This use of the 

 term gob has 

 doubtlessly 

 arisen from the 

 similarity b e- 

 tween the ap- 

 pearance of the 

 opening into a 

 stall and a huge 

 mouth, the 

 word being vul- 

 garly used in 

 many parts of 

 the country 

 for a mouth or 



mouthful. Gob corresponds to the 

 attle or deads of the metal miner. 

 Gobelin, JE AN (d. 1476). French 

 dyer. A native of Reims, he founded 

 in 1450 a dyeworks and cloth 

 factory on the banks of the Bievre, 

 in St. Marcel, a suburb of Paris. 

 The firm was renowned especially 



puff or 



for scarlet wool, but probably the 

 works would never have enjoyed 

 more than a local reputation had 

 not Henry IV, about 1603, pur- 

 chased from the Gobelin family 

 part of the land adjoining the dye- 

 house. Here tapestry sheds were 

 erected for Marc de Comans and 

 Fran9ois de la Planche, two expert 

 designers, but the establishment 

 was still called by its old name, 

 which gradually became attached 

 to the new products. 



Gobelin. Tapestry named from 

 Jean Gobelin. In 1667 Louis XIV 

 consolidated the royal Parisian 

 tapestry workshops at the Hotel 

 de Gobelins. Charles Le Brun and 

 eminent artists provided magni- 

 ficent designs such as The History of 

 the King. After a period of suspen- 

 sion, work was resumed in 1697. 

 Smaller tapestries, portieres of the 

 Gods, etc., were made under 

 Louis XV, but prosperity returned 

 with the beautiful designs of 

 Boucher. The Revolution crip- 

 pled the industry, but later the 

 designs of Baudry brought suc- 

 cess. During the Commune the 

 works were nearly destroyed. 

 Modern tapestries from designs by 

 Galland adorn the Comedie Fran- 

 $aise, others by Toudouze are in 

 the Palais de Justice, Rennes. 

 Many replicas of ancient works 

 have' been executed at the Gobelins. 

 See Tapestry. 



Goat's Rue. I lowers and leaves of 

 the S. European herb 



Europe, it has a stout, creeping 

 rootstock, and the compound leaves 

 consist 'of about 15 lance-shaped 

 leaflets. The leafy stems are about 

 4 ft. high, with a flowering branch 

 at the base of each of the upper 

 leaves. The pea-like flowers are 

 blue, but there is a variety with 

 pure white flowers. It was formerly 

 made into a cordial for administra- 

 tion in fevers and convulsions. 



Goatsucker (Caprimulgus euro- 

 paens). Popular name for the 

 nightjar (q.v.). 



Gob. Waste material used in 

 coal mines for filling up stalls. In 

 the pillar and stall system of coal 



Gobelin. Example of a piece of tapestry depicting a scene from the adventures 



of Don Quixote, entitled Don Quixote led by Folly, from a cartoon by C. A. 



Coypel (1694-1752) 



