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" Ann's bidh creamh agus sealgan, agus luibhe iomdha uile fhorreas, re a 

 n-itheadh lirghlas feadh na bleadhna ma roibhe ar teitheadh 6 chaidreath na 

 n-daoine, do 'n gleann da loch." — Irish. 



Where garlic and sorrel, and many other kinds, of which I ate fresh 

 throughout the year before I fled from the company of men to the glen of the 

 Two Lochs. 1 



A. Scorodoprasum — Rocambole. Gaelic and Irish : creamh 

 nan crag (M'Kenzie), the rock garlic. 



A. ascalonicum — Shallot. Gaelic : sgalaid (Armstrong). (See 

 Allium). 



A. Schoenoprasum — Chives. Gaelic : feuran. Irish : fear an, 

 the grass - like plant. Saidse. Creamh gharadh, the garden 

 garlic. Welsh : cenin Pedr, Peter's leek. 



A. vineale — Crow garlic. Gaelic: garleag Mhuire (Arm- 

 strong), Mary's garlic. 



Narthecium ossifragum — Bog asphodel. Gaelic and Irish : 



blioch, bliochan, from blioch, milk, Welsh : gwaew'r trenin, king's 



lance. 



e * Nuair thigheadh am buaichaill a mach, 

 'Sa gabhadh. e mu chul a chruidh 

 Mu'n cuairt do Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 

 A bhuail 'air m bu trie am bliochd." — M'Leod. 



When the cowherd comes forth. 

 And follows his cows 

 Around Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 

 Often he is struck with the asphodel. 



Scilla non-scripta— Bluebell; wild hyacinth. Gaelic : fit at h 

 tnhuic, the pig's fear or aversion, the bulbs being very obnoxious 

 to swine. Brog na cubhaig, cuckoo's shoe. Irish : buth a muc. 

 Probably buth is the same as bugha (see Allium porrum), fear, 

 the pig's fear. IVPLauchainn called it lili gucagach. 



" Lilt gucagach nan cluigean." 

 The bell-flowered lily. 



S. verna — Squill (and the Latin, scilla, from the Arabic, 

 dsgyl). Gaelic : l-ear uineann, the sea-onion. Lear, the sea, the 

 surface of the sea. 



l< Clos na wm-lear uaine." — OssiAN. 

 The repose of the smooth green sea. 



Welsh: winwyny mor, sea-onion. 



1 A most gloomy and romantic spot in the County of Wicklow. 



" Glen da lough ! thy gloomy wave, 



Soon was gentle Kathleen's grave." — Moore. 



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