1 68 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Brassica rapa — Common turnip. Gaelic, neup ; Irish, 7ieip ; 

 AVelsh, maipeti ; Scotch, neep (and naveiv, French, navet) ; 

 corruptions from Latin napus. 



B. campestris — Wild navew. Gaelic : neitp fiadhain^ wild 

 turnip. 



B. oleracea — Seakale or cabbage. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 

 bhaidhe, the pot-herb of the wave {baidhe, in Irish, a wave). 

 Morran, — mor (Welsh), the sea, its habitat the seaside. Cal 

 colbhairt — the kale with stout fleshy stalks (from colbh^ a stalk 

 of a plant, and art, flesh), cat or cadhal. Welsh : cawl^ kale. 

 Gaelic: cdl-cearslach {cearslach, globular), cabbage; cdl gj'uidheaji 

 (with grain like flowers), cauliflower ; colag (a little cabbage), 

 cauliflower; garadh edit, a kitchen-garden. 



** Dh' itheadh biolair an fhuarain 



'S air bu shuarach an c^/."—M 'Donald. 



I would eat the cress of the wells, 

 Compared to it, kale is contemptible. 



Sinapis arvensis — Charlock, wild mustard. Gaelic : inarag 

 bhuidhe, the yellow sausage (to which the pod is supposed to 

 bear some resemblance). Sceallan^ a kernel. Sgealag (Shaw), 

 — sgealpach, biting. Mustard, from the English. 



" Mar ghrainne de shiol nmstaird." — Stuart. 

 Like a grain of mustard-seed. 



Caran buidhe, the yellow head. Praiseach garbh, the rough pot- 

 herb. Irish : cusag, quantity, because it grows abundantly. 



Resedace/E. 



Reseda luteola — Weld, yellow weed. Gaelic : lus buidhe mor, 

 the large yellow weed. Am buidhe fhliodh, the yellow excres- 

 cence. Irish : buidhe mor. the large yellow. Welsh : llysie Uiu, 

 dye-wort. Reseda, from Latin rescdo ; Gaelic : reidh, to calm, to 

 appease. 



CiSTACEiE. 



(From Greek Klfnt], kiste, a box or capsule, from theii" peculiar 

 capsules. \.Zi\.\n, cista ; Gaelic, r/j-/t'; Y):m\?\\, kiste.) 



Helianthemum vulgare — Rock-rose. Gaelic : grian ros, sun- 

 rose ; p/ur na grcifie, flower of the sun (also heliotrope). Welsh : 

 blodaic'r haul, sun-flower. 



