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plant ; it signifies also power, force, efficacy ; slanuchaidh, a par- 

 ticipial noun from slan ; Latin, sanus), the herb of the healing, 

 or healing power ; a famous healing plant in olden times. 

 Deideag. Irish : deideog (ag and bg, young, diminutive termina- 

 tions ; deid, literally deud or deid, a tooth), applied to the row of 

 teeth, and also to the nipple (Gaelic, diddi ; English, titty), be- 

 cause like a tooth, hence to a plaything, — play, gengaw, bo-peep, 

 a common word with nurses. 



" B'iad sid an geiltre gle ghrinn. 

 Cinn deideagan measg feoir," &c. — M'DONALD. 



Scenes of startling beauty, 

 Plantain-heads among the grass, &c. 



Armstrong translates it "gewgaws" amongst the grass; but the 

 editor of ' Sar-obair nam Bard Gaelach ' — see his vocabulary — 

 gives deideagan, rib-grass, which renders the line intelligible. 

 Bodaich dhubha, the black men, — children's name in Perthshire. 

 AYelsh : Ihvynhidydl-penaur. 



Paronychiace.e. 



Herniaria glabra — Rupture-wort; burst -wort. Gaelic and 

 Irish : lus an f sicnich (M'Kenzie), from sic, the inner skin that 

 is next the viscera in animals. " Bhrist an t sic" the inner skin 

 broke. " Mam-sic" rupture, hernia. Not growing naturally in 

 Scotland, but was formerly cultivated by herbalists as a cure for 

 hernia. 



CHENOPODIACE/E. 



Amaranthus caudatus — Love-lies-bleeding. Gaelic : his a 

 ghraidh, the love plant. Gradh, love. 



Spinacia oleracea — Spinage. Gaelic : bloinigean gdraidh. 

 Blo/iag, fat (Welsh, bloneg ; Irish, blanag) ; gdradh, a garden. 

 Slap chail (M'Alpin) ; slap, to flap ; cat, cabbage. Welsh : yspi- 

 goglys. 



Beta maritima — Beet, mangel-wurzel. Gaelic: betis, biotas. 

 Irish : biotas. Welsh : beatws (evidently on account of its feed- 

 ing or life-giving qualities). Greek : filos. Latin : 7'ita, life, 

 food ; and the Gaelic : biadh, feed, nourish, fatten. Cornish : 

 boet. 



Suaeda maritima — Sea-side goose grass. ) Gaelic and Irish : 



Salicornia herbacea — Glass-wort. J praiseach na mara, 



the sea pot-herb. Name applied to both plants. ¥ ox praiseach, 

 see Crambe maritima. 



Atriplex hastata and patula — Common orache. Gaelic and 



