Juglans regia — The Walnut. Gaelic : craobh-ghallchno^gall, 

 a foreigner, a stranger ; cno^ a nut. 



Leguminifer^. 



Gaelic : luis feidhkagach, pod-bearing plants. Bar guc, papil- 

 ionaceous flowers (Armstrong). Por-cochullach, leguminous. 

 ^^ Bar guc air mheuraibh nosara." — M'Intyre. 

 Blossoms on sappy branches. 

 Sarothamnus scoparius — Broom. Gaelic : bealaidh or beal- 

 uidh (probably from beal^ Baal, and ludh^ favour), the plant 

 that Belus favoured, it being yellow-flowered (see Caltha palustris). 

 Yellow was the favourite colour of the Druids (who were wor- 

 shippers of Belus), and also of the bards. Ossian describes the 

 sun ^^ grian bhuidhe," the yellow sun ; MTntyre, his Isabel, as 



** Iseabel eg 

 An or fhuilt bhuidhy 

 Young Isabel with the golden-yellow hair. 



Irish : brum ; and Welsh : ysgiib. Gaelic : sguab, a brush made 

 from the broom. Latin : scoparius. Giolcach sleibhe {giolc^ a 

 reed, a cane, a leafless twig ; sleibhe, of the hill). 



The badge of the Clan Forbes. 



Cytisus laburnum — Laburnum. Gaelic : bealuidh frangach 

 (in Breadalbane), in some parts sasunach, French or English 

 broom (Ferguson). Frangach is very often affixed to names of 

 plants of foreign origin. This tree was introduced from Switzer- 

 land in 1596. Craobh obru?:, a corruption of laburnum. 



Ulex — Name from the Celtic ec or ac, a prickle (Jones). 



U. europseus — Furze, whin, gorse. Gaelic and Irish : couasg, 

 from Irish co;ias, war, because of its armed or prickly appearance. 

 Welsh : ei/hi/i, prickles. 



" Lan conasgis phreasaibh." — Old Song. 

 Full of furze and bushes. 

 Not common in the Highlands, but plentiful about Fortingall, 

 Perthshire. 



Ononis arvensis — Rest - harrow. Gaelic and Irish : srcang 

 bogha, bowstring. Welsh : tagadr, stop the plough ; eithiji yr eir, 

 ground prickles. Scotch : caviniock, from Gaelic cafn, crooked. 



Trigonella ornithopodioides — Fenugreek, Greek hay. Gaelic : 

 iormtag-greugach (Armstrong), Greek nettle ; crubh-eoi?i, Birds' 

 shoe. Welsh : y grog-wryan. 



Trifolium repens — White or Dutch clover. Gaelic and Irish ; 



