98 POPULAR NAMES 



GREEK VALERIAN, a plant mistaken for the Phu or 

 Valerian of the Greek writers, Polemonium cseruleum, L. 



GREEN-SAUCE, from its culinary use, Rumex acetosa, L. 



GREEN-WEED, or GREENING-WEED, from its use to dye 

 green, Genista tinctoria, L. 



GREENS or GRAINES, in Lyte's Herball GRAYVES, Da. 

 Enden-gruen, duck's herb, Lemna, L. 



GRIGG, heath, Wei. grug, related to W. grwg and grig, 

 a rumbling noise. See BRAMBLE. Calluna vulgaris, Sal. 



GRIMM THE COLLIER, the name of a humorous comedy 

 popular in Q. Elizabeth's reign, "Grimm the collier of 

 Croydon," given to the plant from its black smutty invo- 

 lucre, Hieracium aurantiacum, L. 



GRIP-GRASS, from its gripping or seizing with its hooked 

 prickles whatever comes in its way, Galium Aparine, L. 



GROMELL, GRUMMEL, or GROMWELL, or GRAY MYLE, as 

 Turner says it should be written, from Granum solis and 

 Milium solis together. " That is al one," says the Grete 

 Herball, " granum solis and milium solis." The apothe- 

 caries compromised the matter by combining them, as in 

 the case of Asarabacca. Lithospermum officinale, L. 



GROUND FURZE, Ononis arvensis, L. 



GROUNDHEELE, G. grundheil, Fr. herbe aux ladres, so 

 called from its having cured a king of France of a leprosy 

 from which he had been suffering eight years, a disease 

 called in German grind. Brunschwygk tells us (b. ii. ch. 

 5), that a shepherd had seen a stag, whose hind quarter 

 was covered with a scabby eruption from the bite of a wolf, 

 cure itself by eating of this plant and rolling itself upon it ; 

 and that thereupon he recommended it to his king. 



Veronica officinalis, L. 



GROUND NUT, or GRUNNUT, from its tuber having the 

 flavour of a nut, Bunium flexuosum, W. 



GROUND IVY, L. hedera terrestris, a name which at 

 present is restricted to the Glechoma, but in the Stockholm 



