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The root is a fruitful one in Welsli. From meaning simply shrub, it 
came to be applied to bushy places, to wild places, to wild animals 
and the rude inhabitants of wild places, and to rudeness and savage- 
ry. In another direction it became applied to the worshippers of 
trees and shrubs, to the Druids, to the marks which distinguished 
the Druids from the common people, and thus it came to mean 
knowledge and science. Heonllys (Welsh) is from //j'^, *' a plant," 
and heo7i a name under which the chief deity was worshipped by the 
Welsh bards. Uchelawg means "a lofty thing," juhelfa "a high 
place," uchellawr '' the most exalted," uchellawg '* having a lofty site/' 
uchchvydd^ ychduydh ** the lofty shrub," or ''the branch of excellent 
virtues." All these are Welsh names for the plant. We find also 
uchelfar, uchelfal, tichelfel, uchelvar, ychclvar, Welsh; and huel-varr, 
uchel-varr, ihitel-varr, inhu€l-var)% Ereton; meaning (according to 
the Welsh etymologists) " lofty summit." Corresponding with these 
in idea is the Walloon name hautedavie, from haidh^ ''high," and 
dame, of unknown meaning. Preuawyr ^xxd aivyrbre7i,^t\%\\ names, 
mean the "ethereal tree." Holliach.ox ol-hiach, Welsh; uile-iceadh, 
or uile-iceach, Erse; tiile-ic, uileice, uile-ice, and uil-ioc, Gaelic; and 
ollyiach, Breton, are names for this plant. The the last means also a 
nostrum or panacea. The first means, when an adjective, *' perfectly 
well in health." All are compounded of two words, uile, *'all," *'the 
whole," and /^r, "medicine," "healing," "rent," or "payment." 
Pliny records the fact that the Druids called the mistleto by a name 
meaning in their language "all-healing." Some etymologists say 
that mistleto itself is derived from meist hcil tan, the "most healing 
twig." Ilcil allcr schaden, "heal all wounds," is a German title of 
the plant; and a MS. list by Robert Brown (preserved in the botan- 
ical department of the British Museum) records the name "all heal" 
as a Scotch name. 
Welsh 
authenticity. 
One of the Danish names is vmtergrbnt. There is a similar name 
for the parasite in Swedish, and their meaning is*" wintergreen," from 
the evergreen character of the plant. — Abstract of a paper by W. G. 
Piper, 
Cones Wanted.— Baron F. Thtimen, of Gorz, Austria, wishes 
specimens of cones of North American conifers. It makes no dif- 
ference whether the cones are with or without seeds, but it is very 
necessary that they shall be accurately determined- The Baron 
offers in exchange copies of his Mycotheca Universalis or of his 
publications on forestry-mycology, or payment in money. 
Botanical Notes. 
Sisyrinchhiin. — W 
the Bermudian Sisyrinchium and the Eastern North American plant, 
which latter he now refers to -5". angusti/oiium, Miller, S,Bcrmndt'^ 
ana, L., not being native with us. Mr. Hemsley remarks as follows. 
" S. Bernwdiana differs from S. angustifolium in being much larger 
in all its parts, and strikingly so in its broad leaves, which are equi- ^^ 
tant at the base."— /^?wr/A Bot, xxii., io8. A^ TVtCX^^v^ :(LtrXU^^y 
