7-S The Scott 'is// Naturalist 



Irish : praiseach whin. Min i meal, ground fine, small. Still 

 used by poor people as a pot-herb. Ceathramha-luain-griol/og 



(O'Reilly), loin-quarters. Ceathramadh caorach (Bourke), sheep's 

 quarters. The name griollog is applied also to the samphire. 



A. portulacoides — Purslane-like orache. Gaelic and Irish : 

 purpaidh, purple. A name also given to the poppy. Name 

 given on account of the purple appearance of the plant, it being 

 streaked with red in the autumn. 



Chenop odium vulvaria (or olidum) — Stinking goosefoot. 

 Irish : elefleog. EI or ela, a swan ; and fle or J/eadh, a feast. It 

 was said to be the favourite food of swans. Scotch : olour 

 (Latin, olor, a swan). 



C. album — White goosefoot. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 



fiad/iain, wild pot-herb. The people of the Western Highlands, 



and poor people in Ireland, still eat it as greens. Praiseach 



glas, green pot-herb, a name given to the fig-leaved goosefoot 



(ficifolium). 



C. Bonus-Henricus — Good King Henry, wild spinage, English 

 Mercury. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach brathair, the friar's pot- 

 herb. (Brathair means brother, also friar — frere). Its leaves 

 are still used as spinage or spinach, in defect of better. 



Laurace^. 



Laurus (from Sanskrit labhasa, abundance of foliage ; root 

 lab//, to take, to desire, to possess — akin to Greek, Aa/x/2aj/<o, 

 lambano). — Gaelic : lain//, a hand (Canon Bourke). 



L. nobilis — The laurel, the bay-tree (which must not be con- 

 founded with our common garden laurel, Prum/s lauro-cerasus 

 and P. lusitanicus). Gaelic and Irish : labhras. Crann laoibh- 

 reil, the tree possessing richness of foliage. With its leaves 

 poets and victorious generals were decorated. The symbol of 

 triumph and victory. It became also the symbol of massacre 

 and slaughter, hence another Gaelic name, casgair, to slaugh- 

 ter, to hit right and left. Ur t/aine, the green bay-tree. 



" Agus e' ga sgaoileadh fein a mach mar ur chraoibh uaine." 

 And spreading himself like a green bay-tree. — Psalm xxxvii. 35. 



Ur = ha.y or palm tree, from the Sanskrit, //?'//, to grow up. 

 Palm Sunday is styled " Domhnach an uir" the Lord's day of 

 the palm. 



L. cinnamomum — Cinnamon. Gaelic and Irish : caineal. 



" 'Se \s millse na 'n caineal. "— Beinn-Dorain. 

 It is sweeter than cinnamon. 



