j 70 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Uromyces apiculosa Lev. ; U. introsa Lev.; U. polygoni Fckl. ; Uredo vac- 

 ciniorum Pers. on Vaccinium vitis-idcea ; Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis Lev. ; 

 Trichobasis faba? Lev. ; Protomyces macrosporus Ung. ; Peziza apala B. & 

 l>r. ; P. arenivaga Desm. ; Helotium virgultorum Fr. ; Phacidium repandum 

 1" r. ; Stegia ilicis Fr. ; Phyllactinia guttata Lev. ; Nectria Rousseliana Mont.; 

 Dothidea podagrarise Fi*. ; Stigmatea potentillse Fr., on Potentilla anserina. 



THE GrAELIC NAMES OP PLANTS. 



By JOHN CAMERON. 



( Continued from p. 1 33. ) 



P. picea — Silver pine. Gaelic : giubhas gea/(Ferg\isson), white 

 pine. First planted at Inveraray Castle in 1682. 



Abies communis — Spruce-fir. Gaelic : guithas LochlannacJu 

 Scandinavian pine. 



" Nuair theirgeadh giubhas Lochtainneach" — M'Codrum. 

 When the spruce-fir is done. 



Lbchlannach, from loch, lake, and /au/i, a Germano-Celtic word 

 meaning land — i.e., the lake-lander, a Scandinavian. 



'■ Giubhas glan na Lochlainn, 

 Fuaight' le copar ruadh." 



Polished fir of Norway, 

 Bound with reddish copper. 



P. larix — Larch. Gaelic and Irish : laireag. Scotch : larick. 

 Latin : larix, from the Celtic, /dr, fat, from the abundance of 

 resin the wood contains. Welsh : larswydden, fat wood. 



P. strobus (Strobus, a name employed by Pliny for an east- 

 ern tree used in perfumery) — Weymouth pine. Gaelic : giut/ias 

 Sasunnach (Fergusson), the English pine. It is not English, 

 however; it is a North American tree, but was introduced from 

 England to Dunkeld in 1725. 



Cupressus — Cypress. Irish and Gaelic: cuphair, an altera- 

 tion of Cyprus, where the tree is abundant. 



C. sempervirens — Common cypress. Gaelic: craobh b/uviu, 

 the tree of sorrow. Bron, grief, sorrow, weeping. Craobh uaine 

 gii/thais, the green fir-tree. 



" Is cosmhuil mi ri crann uaine giuthais." — Hosea xiv. 8. 

 I am like a green fir-tree. 



The fir-tree of Scripture (Hebrew berosh and beroth are translated 

 fir trees) most commentators agree is the cypress. 



