26 The Scottish Naturalist. 



E. littoralis — Dwarf- tufted centuary. Gaelic and Irish : dreim- 

 ire muire, the seaside scrambler. Dreim, climb, clamber, scramble : 

 muire ; Latin: mare; German: nicer, the sea. 



Chlora perfoliata — Yellow-wort. Gaelic and Irish : drcimire 

 buidhe, the yellow scrambler. Not in the Highlands, but found 

 in Ireland, whence the name. 



Menyanthes trifoliata — Bog-bean, buck-bean, marsh trefoil. 

 Gaelic and Irish : pbnair chapull, the mare's bean. (See Faba.) 

 Pacharan chapull, the mare's packs or wallets, from pac, a pack, 

 a wallet, a bundle. Tri-bhileach, the three-leaved plant. Mill- 

 sean monaidh, the sweet plant of the hill. 



' 'Millseineach, biolaireach sobhrach. "— M 'LACHUINN. 

 Abounding in bog-beans, cresses, primroses. 



" The Highlanders esteem an infusion or tea of the leaves as 

 good to strengthen a weak stomach" (Stuart). 



CONVOLVULACEiE. 



Convolvulus arvensis — Field bindweed. Gaelic : iadh lus, 

 the plant that surrounds. (See Hedera helix.) 



C. sepium— Great bindweed. Gaelic and Irish: ditil mhial 

 (Shaw), from did, catch with a loop ; and mial, a louse, — really 

 signifying the plant that creeps and holds by twining. 



Cuscuta epilinum — Flax dodder. Irish: clamhainin Ihi, the 

 flax kites. It is parasitical on flax, to the crops of which it is 

 sometimes very destructive. Cunach or (Gaelic) conach, that 

 which covers, as a shirt, a disease. A general name applicable 

 to all the species. Welsh : llhidag, the flax choker. 



Solanace^e. 



Solanum dulcamara — Bitter-sweet; woody nightshade. Gaelic 

 and Irish : searbhag inhilis, bitter-sweet (Highland Society's Dic- 

 tionary). Fuath gor/n, the blue demon (fuath, hate, aversion, a 

 demon). Miotag bhuidhe. Irish: miathog buidhe, the yellow nipper, 

 pincher, or biter. Slat ghorm {slat, a wand, a switch ; gorm, blue). 



S. tuberosum — Potato. Gaelic : bun-tata, adaptation of the 

 Spanish batata. Sir John M'Gregor has ingeniously rendered 

 the word buu-taghta, a choice root ! 



Atropa belladona — Deadly nightshade; dwale banewort. 

 Gaelic and Irish : lus na JCoidhche, the night weed, on account of 

 its large black berries and its somniferous qualities. Buchanan 

 relates the destruction of the army of Sweno, the Dane, when he 

 invaded Scotland, by the berries of this plant, which were mixed 



