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A DICTIONARY OF 
Gale. Myrica Gale, L. — Cumh. Hal. Wr., E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 ; 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; N. Lane. ; N.-W. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6 ; 
Yks. Prior, p. 87. Hal. gives as an adj., ^ Galey, swampy, marshy; 
Devon ; ’ which no doubt took its origin from the prevalence of the 
plant in such situations. There is a place near Whitchurch, Salop, 
called Oale-mooT, from the prevalence of the plant there. Blackstone 
(Specimen Botanicum). A kind of beer, called gale beer, is brewed 
from the plant at Ampleforth, Yorks. ; see N. & Q. , 3rd Ser., iv. 311. 
Gale, Scotch. Myrica Gale, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Gale, Sweet. Myrica Gale, L. — Ylts. The general book-name, from 
its pleasant aromatic odour. Prior, p. 228. 
Gales. Myrica Gale, L. — Aherdeensli. 
Galingale. ‘ Sweet Cyperus.’ — Hal. WY. Cyperiis longus, L. 
Gall. Myrica Gale, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. Also Gall-bushes. ‘ In 
some parts of Dumfriesshire this plant is reckoned by the shepherds 
to be the gall of Scripture,’ — Transactions of Berwicksh. Naturalists’ 
Club, 1842, p. 13. 
Gallant. An old name for one or more of the garden species of 
Anemone, given in Ger. Index. He describes one as ‘ a most gallant 
flower, verie double.’ Ger. 302. Skinner has ‘ Gallant, Anemone, sic 
dicta ob eximiam florum pulchritudinem.’ 
Galligaskins. A variety of the Cowslip {Primula veris, L.) or 
Polyanthus, having the calyx enlarged and much cut. ‘ There is 
another kinde, whose flowers are folded or crumpled at the edges, and 
the huskes of the flowers bigger than any of the former, more swelling 
out in the middle, as it were ribbes, and crumpled on the sides of the 
huskes, which doe somewhat resemble mens hose that they did w^eare, 
and tooke the name of Gallegaskins from thence.’ Park. Parad. p. 
245 and p. 243, fig. 9, where it is called Gaskins. 
Gallion (from the Lat. Galium). Galium verum, L. — Lyte. 
Galloc. ‘The herb Comfrey.’ — Hal. "Wr. In Cockayne, i. 163, this 
name is spelt Yalluc. Symphytum ofieinale, L. 
Gall-of-the-Earth. Erytlircea Centaurium, L. — See Earth-gall. 
Gallon. Petasites vulgaris, Desf. — Ireland (Belfast, Antrim). 
Gallow-Grass. Cannabis saliva, L. — Lyte; Suff. : Prior, p. 87. 
‘ Quia sc. ad funes texendos, quibus fures suspenduntur, utilis est.’ 
Skinner. 
Gallwort. Linaria vulgaris, IMill. — Suss. Coles, A. in E., p. 313. 
Mascal (Government of Cattel) speaks of Galwort herb, ‘which is 
bitter,’ and used ‘ against the flowing of the gall in cattell,’ which may 
be this plant, or is perhaps Erythrcea Centaurium, L. 
Gandergoose. ‘The herb Eagwort.’ — Hal. AVr. Perhaps a misprint 
for Gandergosses. Orchis maseula, L., is no doubt the plant intended. 
See Ragwort. 
Gander-gosses. Orchis maseula, L. — Ger. Appx. Skinner’s explana- 
tion is too good to be omitted. ‘ Nescio an a nostro Gander et Goss, 
