_"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 {468} 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_.