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treason, falsehood ; and feallair (feali /hear), a deceiver,' — from 

 the some root (Latin, /<7//c7, to deceive). Welsh: cegid. Latin: 

 cicnta. 



Sinyrnium olusatrum — Alexanders. Gaelic : Ins nan gran 

 dubh, the plant with black seeds, — on account of its large black 

 seeds. It was formerly eaten as a salad or pot-herb, whence, 

 and from its blackness, the name olusatrum (Latin : olus, a vege- 

 table, and ater, black). " ' Alexanders,' because it was supposed 

 to have been brought from Alexandria " (Ray). 



Apium (from Celtic root, abh, a fluid or water, Latinised into 

 apmm). 



Apium graveolens — Smallage, wild celery. Gaelic : lus ?ia 

 smalaig, a corruption of smallage. Pearsal inJwr, the large pars- 

 ley. Irish : meirse. Greek : /xeipa, to divide ; or Anglo-Saxon : 

 merse , a lake, sea. Latin : 7nare, — marshy ground being its habi- 

 tat. Welsh : persli frcngig, French parsley. 



Petroselinum sativum — Parsley. Gaelic : pearsal (corruption 

 from the Greek, Trcrpos, pelros, a rock, and a-eXivov, selinon, 

 parsley). Afumean M/iuire, Mary's sprouts. Welsh : persli. 



Heliosciadium inundatum — Marshwort. Gaelic : fualadar 

 ijxoxn fual, water). The plant grows in ditches, among water. 



Carum carui — Caraway. Scotch : carvie ; Gaelic : carbhaidh 

 (a corruption from the generic name), from Caria, in Asia Minor, 

 because it was originally found there ; — also written carbhinn. 



" Cathair ihalmha.nta's card Atnn chroc cheannach." — M'Intyre. 

 The yarrow and the horny-headed caraway. 



Zf^s Mhic Chuimein^ M'Cumin's wort. The name is derived from 

 the Arabic gamoiin, the seeds of the plant Cuminum cyniinuni 

 {cu?nm), which are used like those of caraway. 



Bunium flexuosum — The earth-nut. Gaelic: braonan bhuachail, 

 the shepherd's drop (or nut) ; brao?ia?i bachlaig (Shaw) ; aw 

 thalmhainn, — cno, a nut, thabnhahm, earth, — ploughed land, 

 ground. (Hebrew : D"'^'r, tilimy ridges, heaps ; D^P, talam, break, 

 as into ridges or furrows, — heap up. Latin : tellus. Arabic : 

 tel). Irish : caor thalmhaijin, earth-berry ; colrearan muic, pig- 

 berries, or pig-nuts. Cut/iarlati, a plant with a bulbous root. 



Foeniculum vulgare — Fennel. Gaelic : lus an fsaiodk, the 

 hay weed. Fineal, from \^2X\x\, foenum, hay, — the smell of the 

 plant resembling that of hay. Irish : fineal chumhthra {cumhra^ 

 sweet, fragrant). Welsh : ffenigl. 



Ligusticum, from Liguria, where one species is common. 



