dial. Also 6–7 locker goulons, lockron gowlons, (8–9 -ans). [f. LUCKEN ppl. a. + GOLLAND, GOWAN.] A north. dial. name for the Globe-flower, Trollius Europæus. (By Turner app. erron. applied to the Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris.)
1548. Turner, Names of Herbes (1881), 26. Chameleuce … is called in Northumberlande a Lucken gollande.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cccli. 809. Locker Goulons, or globe Crowfoote. Ibid., 810. The globe flower is called … Lockron gowlons.
1640. Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 333, 1740.
1724. Ramsay, Yng. Laird & Katy. We’ll pou the daisies on the green, The lucken gowans frae the bog.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 317. Locker Gowlans, Trollius.
1821. Hogg, When the kye comes hame, iv. Poet. Wks. 1840, V. 73. When … the bonny lucken gowan Has fauldit up her ee.
