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Club for 1842, p. 12, where will be found an admirable paper by Mr. 
James Hardy, entitled ‘ Buttercups and Daisies,’ in which the different 
plants known as gowan or by some allied name are fully enumerated. 
The name gowan, although no doubt originally applied to yellow 
flowers, is now more generally transferred to the daisy. Dr. Prior 
(p. 95) says, it ‘ appears in different parts of Scotland to be applied to 
the dandelion, the hawkweeds, common marigold, the globe flower, 
and indeed almost any that is yellow ; ’ and in Aberdeenshire all the 
yellow-flowered Compositce are so called. 
(1) Beilis per ennis, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Moray; Inverness. 
Usually intended by modern writers when the word gowan is used 
without preflx. ‘ A gowan-gabbit day ’ is a Scotch expression for a 
sunshiny day when the gowans have disclosed themselves. 
(2) Caltha palustris, L. — W. Cumb. 
See also Gold, Golland, Gowlan, Guild, Gule. 
Gowan, Benner. See Benner Gowan. 
Gowan, Dog. See Dog Gowan. 
Gowan, Ewe. See Ewe-gowan. 
Gowan, Gill. See Gill Gowan. 
Gowan, Gule. Chrysanthemum segetum, L. ■— Rural Cyclopjedia. 
A pleonasm, meaning golden daisy, or rather gold golden, the fact of 
the name gowan not being originally appropriated to the daisy being 
forgotten. 
Gowan, Horse. (1) Matricaria Chamomilla, L,, M. inodora, L., 
and Anthemis arvensis, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Banffsli. Phyt. vi. 
433, N. s. ; Berwicksh. Trans. Berwicksh. Nat. Club, 1842, p. 16; 
Dumfriessh. 
(2) Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L. — Banff.; Berwicksh. Trans. 
Berwicksh. Nat. Club, 1842, p. 16; Aberdeensh. Statistical Acct. of 
Scotland (1845), xii. 956; Edinb. ; Moray.; Perth.; Stirl. 
(3) Leontodon Taraxacum, L. — Scotl. Jamieson, who includes 
^ Hypochoeris and Crepis'' under the name. 
Gowan, Lapper {Roxhurghsli.), or Lopper {Clydesdale, Jamieson). 
Trollius europoeus, L. — See Gowan, Lockin, of which it appears to be 
a corrupt form. 
Gowan, Large White. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L. — Scott. 
Jamieson. 
Gowan, Lockin or Luckin. Trollius europoeus, L. — Cumb. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 8 ; also Lockenty Gowan, and Lockity Gowan, E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 8 ; and in 8. - W. Cumb. Locken-ma Gowan ; Westm. 
Hodgson’s Hist, of Northumberland, part ii. vol. 2; Edinb. This 
means the locked or closed gowan, on account of its incurved flowers. 
Gowan, May. Beilis perennis, L. — Berw. Forf. ‘ Ye’ll get round 
again, if ye had your flt (foot) on the May gowan ’ is a Berwickshire 
saying. Trans. Berwicksh. Nat. Club, 1842, p. 19. 
Gowan, Meadow. Caltha palustris, L. — Ayrsh. 
Gowan, Milk. Leontodon Taraxacum, L.^ — Forf. Jamieson. 
