legend it is called the Mermaid's Lace. This The 

 little flame-like crest of undulating wrack has Gardens 

 a designation longer than itself, but in tales of e 

 faerie we know it to be that of which the caps 

 of the pool-elves are fashioned. 



In the Isles seaweed has many local names, 

 but is always mainly divided into Yellow 

 Tails, Dark Tails, and Red Tails (Feamainn 

 bhuidhe, feamainn dubh, and feamainn dearg). 

 The first comprise all the yellowish, light- 

 brown, and olive -brown seaware ; the second 

 all the dark-green, and also all green wrack ; 

 the third, the red. The common seaware or 

 kelp or tang (Fucus vesiculosus) is generally 

 called propach, or other variant signifying 

 tangled : and the bladder - wrack, feamainn 

 bholgainn or builgeach, ' baggy-tails.' I have 

 at times collected many local names of these 

 weeds, and not a few superstitions and legends. 

 Naturally, the most poetic of these are con- 

 nected with the Chorda filum or Dead Man's 

 Hair, which has a score of popular names, from 

 * corpsy-ropes ' to the occasional Gaelic gille- 

 mu lunn, which may be rendered ' the wave's 

 gillie' or 'servant of the wave': with the 

 drifted gulf-weed, whose sea-grapes are called 

 uibhean sitkein, fairy eggs, and are eagerly 

 sought for: and with the duileasg, or dulse. 

 Even to this day, in remote parts, an ancient 



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