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 A GLOSSARY OF DRVONSHIRE PLANT NAMES. 27 (Pf. «Gob" and " Gobble "—French "Gobbe," a baU for swaUow- ing — and '' Gobet/' which in the plural is the name for a kind of cherry. GooBB-ORASS, Odlium Aparine^ L., because employed as food, especially for young geese ; so in other counties. (Britten, p. 213.) Grab, Pyrus Malu8y L. Both the fruit (Crab-Apple, as some call it) and the tree. (Cf, Britten, p. 218.) Graot Day, Narci^Ks PseuclcMiai'cissus, L. (Cf, Gigoary ; ako HaUiweU, Wright, and Britten, p. 218.) Probably in reference to the day of Pentecost, seeing the flower bears a number of other names associating it with the most important Church festivalB of that season. Easter Sunday was formerly called Great Day, and this is very likely to be the origin of the name " Gracy Day," since Easter Lily is another Devonshire name for Narcissus, as I ascer- tained personally at Topsham last year. Grannie's Niohtoap, Aquilegia tnUgaris, L. A most expressive name for the Columbine. The crimped petals are as suitable for the old-fashioned frilled caps of our grandmothers as the plain petals of the White Campion {Lychnis vespertina, SibtL) are. The name is common eisewhere, but applied to the Monkshood or Anemone. (Britten, pp. 218, 219.) Grass, Shakino, Briza mediae L. From its restless motion. (Britten, p. 220.) In Northamptonshire called '' Quakers." Grass Fruit. The fruit (apples) iirst picked up; that which falls through the influence of the wind, &c., but is not gathered. Green Sauoe, (1) Bumex Aceiosa, L. Sorrel bears many other local names, as Sour-sabs, &c., which see. (Britten, p. 233 ; Prior, p. 99.) (2) Oxalis Acetoselldy L. This is more frequently so called than (1) in Devon. Ground Ash. "A labouring man told me to-day (May 14th, 1877) that a Grmind-ash was one that was self-sown, had never been transplanted nor lopped in any way, and was precisely the same as a Maiden-ash, W.P." — Trails. Devon, Assoc, ix. 131. (Cf, Britten, p. 235.) Ground Ivy, Convolvidus septum, L. (Britten, p. 235.) I have not heard this name myself Grumsel, Leontodon Taraxacum, L. " The Dandelion — Devaiu'^ Halliwell, Wright, and Britten, s.v. Connected with "Groundsel." (Earle, 5, 46.) Gulty-cup, Bannneidus aciis, L., and other Buttercups. (Cf. GiirCUP and Go'-oup ; Britten, p. 237.) Hagthorn, Cratcegus Oxyacantha, L. Hag represents the Anglo-Saxon form. Earle's Plant Names j Ixviii. pp. 20, 21 ; Cockayne, iii. p. 329 ; Britten, p. 239 ; Prior, a v. Hawthorii, p. 106, for etymological notes. Mr. Conway (Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1870, p. 605) says : "The common name of the witch, Mg,