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East. Moray 



West. 



Cawdor and Forres, 1879. R ev - J- Keith. 



England. Europe. 



2202. P. (Hymenoscypha) scutula Pers. Karst. Myc. Fenn. i. 



p. no. 

 Gregarious, stipitate, rather firm, smooth, brick-red, or whitish 

 becoming yellowish ; cup patelliform, margin quite entire, epithecium 

 darker, yellow, or becoming brick-yellowish, nearly plane or slightly 

 convex ; stem paler, flocculose, nearly equal, sometimes rufescent or 

 rose-coloured downwards ; asci cylindraceo-clavate , sporidia acicu- 

 lar-elongate, for the most part somewhat curved, 2-6 nucleate, "019 

 - '026 x '004 - '005 mm. 



On stems of Spircea. Oct. 



East. Moray 



West. 



Forres, 1879. Rev. J. Keith. 

 Europe. 



( To be continued. ) 



THE GAELIC NAMES OF PLANTS. 



By JOHN CAMERON. 



( Continued from p. 82. ) 



Parietaria officinalis — Wall pellitory. Gaelic and Irish: 

 lus a bhal/aidh, from balladh (Latin, vallum ; Irish, bulla), a 

 wall. A weed which is frequently found on or beside old walls 

 or rubbish heaps, hence the generic name "parietaria," from 

 paries, a wall. Irish : mionutas chaisil {caisiol, any stone build- 

 ing), the wall-mint. For mioiiutas, see Mentha. 



Humulus lupulus — Hop. Gaelic and Irish : lus ati leamia — 

 lionii luibh, the ale or beer plant. Lionn y leann (Welsh, Ihyn), 

 beer, ale. 



Ulmus — Elm. Celtic: ailm. The same in Anglo-Saxon, 

 Teutonic, Gothic, and nearly all the Celtic dialects. Hebrew : 

 rby, elah, translated oak, terebinth, and elm. 



U. campestris — Gaelic and Irish : leamhau, slamhan (Shaw), 

 liobhati. Welsh : llwyfen. According to Pictet, in his work, 

 1 Les Origines Indo-Europeennes ou les Aryans Primitifs,'p. 221, 

 " To the Latin : ' Ulmus ' the following bear an affinity (re- 

 spond) — Sax.: ell 'm. Scand.: almr. Old German: elm. Rus. : 

 ilemu. Polish : ilma. Irish : ailm, uilm, and by inversion, 



