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92 POPULAR NAMES 



GLOBE THISTLE, from its globular inflorescence, 



Echinops, L. 



GOAT'S BEARD, from its long coarse pappus, a transla- 

 tion of its Gr. name TpcuyoTrwywv, 



Tragopogon pratensis, L. 



GOAT-WEED, from its Greek name, diyoTro&iov, 



^jgopodium Podagraria, L. 



GOLD-APPLES, Fr. pommes (Tor, from their colour before 

 maturity, tomatoes, Solanum Lycopersicum, L. 



GOLD OF PLEASURE, a name which Gerarde and Parkin- 

 son attempt to explain by telling us that "the poore 

 peasant doth use the oile in banquets, and the rich in their 

 lampes." This seems to be a way of getting over a diffi- 

 culty by forcing a sense upon it. "We learn from Gerarde 

 that an oil was imported from Spain as " Oleo de Alegria," 

 this latter word Alegria, being the name of another oil- 

 plant, a sesamum, and it would seem that this " Oleo de 

 Alegria" has become corrupted to " Oro de alegria," gold 

 of pleasure, and applied to a very different species, the 

 source of a spurious oil, passed off upon the public for the 

 Spanish. Whether Alegria was applied to the sesamum 

 in the sense of " pleasure," or is an Arabic word beginning 

 with al, it is irrelevant to enquire. Camelina sativa, L. 



GOLD-CUPS, from A.S. copp, a head, a button, or stud, 

 and like King-cup, Gilt-cup, and Butter-cup, representing 

 the Fr. bouton d'or, the bachelor's button, Ranunculus, L. 



GOLD-KNOBS, -KNAPPES, or-KNOPPES,A.S. cneep, a button, 

 Du. knoop. See GOLD-CUP. 



GOLDE, in our old poets the marigold, supposed from its 

 yellow flowers, to have been the -^pv^avde^ov, or gold 

 flower of the Greeks, Calendula officinalis L. 



GOLDEN-CHAIN, from its long racemes of yellow flowers, 

 Du. goude keten, in Sweden more tastefully called guldregn, 

 golden rain, Cytisus Laburnum, L. 



