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ilia, a little apple.) Lus-iian cam-bhil (M'Kenzie), the plant with 



drooping flowers. The plant is well distinguished by its flowers, 



which droop, or are bent down, before expansion ; but though the 



name is thus applicable, it is only a corruption from the Greek. 



" Bi'dh mionntain, c727//<?w/h7s'sobhraichean 

 Geur bhileach, lonach, luasganach." — M'Intyre. 



There will be mints, chamomile, and primroses, 

 Sharp-leaved, prattling, restless. 



Luibh-leighis, the healing plant. This plant is held in consider- 

 able repute, both in the popular and scientific Materia Medica. 



A. pyrethruin — Pellitory of Spain. Gaelic : lus na Spdiue, 

 the Spanish weed. 



A. arvensis — Field chamomile. Irish: coman mionla (coman, a 

 common ; mionla, fine-foliaged. Gaelic : min lack). 



Matricaria inodora — Scentless May-weed. Gaelic : buidheag 

 an arbhair, the corn daisy. Camomhil feadhain, wild chamomile. 

 Welsh: llygad yr ych, ox-eye. 



Tanacetum vulgare — Tansy. Gaelic : Ins na Fraing, the 

 French weed. (French, tanaisie.) Irish: tamhsae, corruptions 

 from Athanasia. (Greek : a, privative, and Oavaros, death, i.e., 

 a plant which does not perish — a name far from applicable to 

 this species). 



Eupatorium cannabinum — Hemp agrimony. Gaelic and 

 Irish : cnaib uisge or caineab uisge, water-hemp (from Greek 

 Kawafiis ; Latin, cannabis, hemp ; the root can, white). 



Bidens cernua — Bur marigold. Irish: sceachog Mhuire, 

 Mary's haw. 



Achillea ptarmica — Sneezewort. Gaelic : cruaidh lus, hard 

 weed. (Latin : crudus, hard, inflexible). Meacan ragaim, the 

 stiff plant. Roibhe, moppy. 



A. millefolium — Yarrow. Gaelic : lus chosgadh na fola, the 

 plant that stops bleeding. Lus na fola, the blood-weed. Earr 

 thalmhainn, that which clothes the earth (earr, clothe, array). 

 Athair thahnhainn, the ground father. Cathair thalmhainn, the 

 ground seat or chair. Probably alterations of earr (for thalm- 

 hainn see Bunimn flexuosum). 



" Cathair thalmhainn 's carbhin chroc-cheannach." — MTntyre. 

 The yarrow and the horny-headed caraway. 



Solidago virgaurea — Golden rod. Gaelic : fuinseag coille ? A 

 name given by Shaw to the herb called " Virgo pa storis." Also 

 one of the names of the mountain-ash (Pyrus aucuparia, which see). 



