132 TJie Scottish Naturalist. 



S. caprea, and S. aquatica — Common sallow. Gaelic and 

 Irish : suileag, probably the same as Irish, saileog (Anglo-Saxon, 

 salig, sallow). Suit — the old Irish name — (in Turkish su means 

 water), in Irish and Gaelic, the eye, look, aspect, and sometimes 

 tackle (Armstrong). The various species of willow were exten- 

 sively used for tackle of every sort. Ropes, bridles, &c, were 

 made from twisted willows. " In the Hebrides, where there is 

 so great a scarcity of the tree kind, there is not a twig, even 

 of the meanest willow, but what is turned by the inhabitants 

 to some useful purpose." — Walker's ' Hebrides.' And in Ire- 

 land, to this day, " gads," or willow ropes, are made. Geal- 

 sJicileach (Armstrong), the white willow or sallow tree. Irish : 

 crann sailigh fhrattcaigh, the French willow. 



S. babylonica — The Babylonian willow. Gaelic: seilcach an 

 f srutha {sruth, a brook, stream, or rivulet), the willow of the 

 brook. 



" Agus gabhaidh sibh dhuibh fein air a' cheud la meas chraobh aluinn, 

 agus seilcach an t srutha. " — Lev. xxiii. 40. 



And take unto yourselves on tbe first day fruit of lovely trees, and willows 

 of the brook. 



Myricace^:. 



Myrica gale — Bog myrtle, sweet myrtle, sweet gale. Gaelic : 

 rideag. Irish : rideog, rileog (changing sound of d to / being 

 easier). Rod ox roid is the common name in the Highlands, 

 perhaps from the Hebrew, E>m, rothem, a fragrant shrub. It is 

 used for numerous purposes by the Highlanders, <?.£., as a substi- 

 tute for hops ; for tanning ; and from- its supposed efficacy in 

 destroying insects, beds were strewed with it, and even made of 

 the twigs of gale, which is there called nodha. " And to this 

 day it is employed by the Irish for the same purpose by those 

 who know its efficacy. The rideog is boiled and the tea or juice 

 drunk by children to kill 'the worms.' I think children edu- 

 cated in our national schools should be taught to know these 

 plants and their value." — Canon Bourke. 



Badge of the Clan Campbell. 



Conifers. 



Pinus — French : le pin. German : pyn-baum. Italian : il pino. 

 Spanish: el pino. Irish: pinn chrann. Gaelic: pin -chrann. 

 Anglo-Saxon : pinn. All these forms of the same name are 

 derived, according to Pictet, from the Sanskrit verb pitta, the 



