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A DICTIONARY OF 
Gillyflower. See Gilliflower. 
Giltycup. See Gilcup. 
Ging’er. From its extreme pungency. Sedum acre, L. — Suff. 
Ginger-plant. Tanacetum vulgare, L. — N. Herts. 
Gipsy Flower. (1) Cynoglossum officinale, L. — Glou. From the 
dark hue of its flowers. 
(2) Scabiosa arvensis, L. — Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry, Book 
ii., p. 43 (1638). 
Gipsy-herb. Lycopus europceiis, L. — Threlkeld, who speaks of its 
use by ‘ those stroling cheats called gipsies.’ See Gipsy- wort. 
Gipsy Onions. Allium ursinum, L. — South, Hal. ; Wight, FI. Vect. 
Gipsy, or Gipsies’, Rose. (1) Scahiosa arvensis, L. — Camh. ; N. 
£ss. ; Nor/. ; Wight, FI. Vect. ; Tks. (Leeds). 
(2) Scabiosa atropurpurea, L. (of gardens). — Wight, FI. Vect. 
‘ The corn rose. Var. dialJ Hal. This may he Papaver Phoeas, L., 
the plant usually known as Corn Eose, but (1) is most likely 
intended. Egyptian Rose (which see) is another form of the same 
name. 
Gipsy-wort. The modern hook-name for Lycopus europceus, L. — 
With. ed. vii. Ger. (p. 566) says : ‘ Some also thinke good to call it 
Herba NEgptia [sic], hicause they that counterfet themselves Egyptians 
(such as many times wander hke vagabonds from citie to citie in 
Germanie) do use with this herbe to give themselves a swart colour, 
such as the Egyptians and the people of Afrike are of.’ Lyte has a 
similar explanation. Prior, p. 91. 
Girdle, Sea. Laminaria digitata, Lam. — Scotl. Jamieson. Lyte 
(p. 413) flgures a plant under this name which seems to be Posidonia 
Caulini, Keen. 
Girls’ Mercury. The male plant of Mercurialis annua, L., errone- 
ously believed by the older writers to be the female, the name being 
applied to it from a behef similar to that referred to under Boy’s 
Mercury, which see. Lyte, p. 78. 
Girs, Ripple. Plantago major, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. See Grass, 
Ripple. 
Girs, Stanch, or Stench. Achillea Millefolium,^ L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
From the styptic properties of the plant, which are referred to in 
several of its other names, such as Nosebleed. 
Girt Ox Eye. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L. — Cumb. (WTii- 
derwath). 
Gis- an’ -gullies {i. e. geese-and-goslings). The catkins of Salix 
Caprea, L. — Sal. 
Gith. Nigella sativa, L. Ger., &c., now often applied, as in Hal. 
and Wr., to Lychnis Githago, Lam. See Ger., pp. 926, 927. Prior, 
p. 91. 
Gix. ‘The kex of hemlock.’ — Wilts. Hal. Wr. See Kex. 
