"Filthy Gingran" (Vol. ii., p. 335).—I have found the following clue to the solution of my Query on this point:—
"Gingroen (gin-croen) s. f., the toad-flax, a kind of stinking mushroom."—Owen's Welsh Dictionary.
There is, however, some mistake (a high authority informs me) in the explanation given in the dictionary. Toad-flax is certainly not a "mushroom," neither does it "stink." Is the Welsh word applied to both equivocally as distinct
objects? In Withering's Arrangement of British Plants, 7th edit., vol. iii., p. 734., 1830, the Welsh name of Antirrhinum Sinaria, or common yellow toad-flax, is stated to be Gingroen fechan.
I must still invite further explanation.
A. T.
Michael Scott (Vol. ii., p. 120.).—A correspondent wishes to know what works of Michael Scott's have ever been printed. In John Chapman's Catalogue for June, 1850, I see advertised
"Michael Scott's Physionomia, Venet. 1532.
———— Chyromantia del Tricasso da Ceresari, 2 vols. in 1, 1532."
H. A. B.