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scoticum, Dactylis, Festuca, Lonicera Periclymenum, Rubus, 

 Angelica sylvestris. 



Shore Turf (Creagan). Carex binervis, C.flacca, Plantago 

 maritima, Statice maritima, Glaux maritima, Cochlearia, 

 Festuca, Lotus corniculatus, Potentilla Anserina. 



Blown Sands (Balanahard Bay). Lotus corniculatus, 

 Sedum anglicum, Er odium cicatarium, Veronica Chamcedrys, 

 Viola Riviniana, Hieracium Pilosella, Galium verum, 

 Thymus Serpyllum. 



Gaelic Names. About 200 of the local Gaelic names 

 have been collected, and are here included. Some confusion 

 exists as to the species to which certain names apply. In 

 such cases the names given by the older persons, who had used 

 the plants or known them to have been used for particular 

 purposes, are adhered to. It has not been ascertained with 

 certainty to what plants certain names (Luibh-an-Fhoclain, 

 Lus-na-Miadh, Fionndfhuirneach, etc.) locally refer. 



Uses. In the olden days many of the plants found locally 

 were put to medicinal and other uses ; but the generation 

 which so used the plants has gone the way of all flesh, and 

 the information now to be obtained is consequently of a 

 fragmentary nature. Had this work been attempted fifty 

 years ago, it would doubtless have been attended with a 

 much greater measure of success. Such information as 

 could be gleaned from the older inhabitants is noted in 

 the following pages. It may be mentioned here that in 

 the preparation of ointments, etc., the herbs were pounded 

 between stones, as contact with iron or steel was believed 

 to exercise a deleterious effect on the properties of the 

 plants. 



EXPLANATORY 



With few exceptions, the nomenclature of the tenth edition 

 of the London Catalogue of British Plants has been adhered 



