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Car4amine pratensis— Cuckoo flower, ladies' smock. Gaelic : 

 plur na cubkaig, the cuckoo-flower. Gleoran^ from gleote^ hand- 

 some, pretty. The name is given to other cresses as well. 

 Biolair-ghriagain, the bright sunny dainty. 



Cakile maritimum — Sea gilly-flower rocket. Gaelic : fearsaid- 

 eag; meaning uncertain, but probably from Irish saide^ a seat 

 (Latin, sedes)^ the sitting individual — from its procumbent habit. 



Nasturtium oJBacinalis — Water-cress. Gaelic, biolair, a dainty, 

 or that which causes the nose to smart, hence agreeing with 

 nasturtium (Latin : nasus, the nose, and tortus^ tormented). Dur- 

 lus, — du7% water, and lus, plant. Dobhar-lus^ — dobhar^ water. 

 Welsh : berwyr dwfr, water-cress. The Gaelic and Irish bards 

 used these names indefinitely for all cresses. 



" Sa bhiolair luidneach, shliom-chluasach. 

 Glas, chruinn-cheannach, chaoin ghorm-nealach|; 

 Is i fas glan, uchd-ard, gilmeineach, 

 Fuidh barr geal iomlan, sonraichte." — M'Intyre. 



Its drooping, smooth, green, round-leaved water-cress growing so radiantly, 

 breast-high, trimly; under its remarkably perfect white flower. 



^^ Dobhrach bhallach mhin," — M'Intyre. 



Smooth-spotted water-cress. 



Sisymbrium sophia — Flixweed. Gaelic : fineal Mhuire^ the 

 Virgin Mary's fennel. Welsh : piblys, pipe-weed. 



Erysimum alliaria — Garlic mustard, sauce alone. Gaelic ; 

 garbhrait/ieach, rough, threatening. 



Cheiranthus cheiri — Wallflower, gilly-flower. Gaelic : lus leth 

 an samhraidh^ half the summer plant. Irish : the same. Welsh : 

 bloden gorpJwiaf^ July flower or gilly-flower. Wedg^vood says 

 gilly-flower is from the French giroflee, 



Brassica rapa — Common turnip. Gaelic, neup ; Irish, ndp ; 

 Welsh, maipen ; Scotch, neep (and navew^ French, navet) ; 

 corruptions from Latin napus. 



B. campestris — Wild navew. Gaelic : neup fiadhain, wild 

 turnip. 



B. oleracea — Seakale or cabbage. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 

 bhaidhe, the pot-herb of the wave {baid/ie, in Irish, a wave. 

 Morran, — mor (Welsh), the sea, its habitat the seaside. Cal 

 colbhairt — the kale with stout fleshy stalks (from colbh^ a stalk 

 of a plant, and aii, flesh), cat or cadhal. Welsh : caivl^ kale. 

 Gaelic : cdl-cearslach {cearslach, globular), cabbage ; cdl gruidhean 

 (with grain like flowers), cauliflower ; colag (a little cabbage), 

 cauliflower; garadh cdil, a kitchen-garden. 



