"Gang-flower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... past the milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), from being carried in procession during Rogation Week, was known by such names as the rogation-flower, gang-flower, procession-flower, and cross-flower, a custom noticed by Gerarde, who tells us how, "the maidens which use in the countries to walke the procession do make themselves garlands and nosegaies ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer |
