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Anethuni graveolens — Strong - scented or common dill. 

 Gaelic and Irish : dile (M'Donald) (Latin : diligo), — dile, a 

 word in Gaelic meaning love, affection, friendship. The whole 

 plant is very aromatic, and is used for medicinal preparations. 



Slum (from stu, " water in Celtic," I.oudon), perhaps from 

 sjo (Gothic), water, lake, sea. 



S. sisarum — Skirrets. Gaelic : criwiagan (Shaw), from croin^ 

 bent, crooked, from the form of its tubers. The tubers were 

 boiled and served up with butter, and were declared by Worl- 

 ridge, in 1682, to be "the sweetest, whitest, and most pleasant 

 of roots ; " formerly cultivated in Scotland under the name of 

 " crummock," a corruption of the Gaelic name. 



S. angustifolium — Water-parsnip. Gaelic : folachdan (Arm- 

 strong), from folac/id, luxuriant vegetation ; a?i, water. Irish : 

 cosadh dubhadh, the great water-parsnip (O'Reilly), {cos, a foot, 

 stalk, shaft, and dub/i, great, prodigious). 



Pastinaca sativa — Parsnip. Gaelic : meacan-an-righ, the 

 king's root, royal root. Oirran geal (from cur, to sow, geal, 

 white). Irish : cuiridin ban, the same meaning {cuirwi, I plant 

 or sow). Welsh: moro7i gwyjiion, ^^Xd^cdsroi. 



.ffigopodium podagraria — Goat-, gout-, or bishop - weed. 

 Gaelic : lus an easbuig, — easbuig, a bishop. A name also given to 

 Chrysanthemum leucanthe7num, but with a different signification. 



Heracleum sphondylium — Cow-parsnip. Gaelic : odharan, 

 from odhar (Greek : iiiyjio<i ; English : ochre), pale, dun, yellow- 

 ish, in reference to the colour of the flower. Meacan-a-chruidh^ 

 the cow's plant.' The plant is wholesome and nourishing for 

 cattle. Gtinnachan sputachain, squirt -guns. Children's name 

 for the plant, because they make squirt-guns from its hollow 

 stems. 



Daucus carota — Carrot. Gaelic : curran (from cur, to sow), 

 a root like that of the carrot. Carrait, corruption from carota, 

 which is said to be derived from the Celtic root car, red, from 

 the colour of the root. Mura7t — (Welsh : moron), a plant with 

 tapering roots. Irish : cuiTan bhiiidhe, the yellow root. 

 " Miiran brioghar 's an grunnasg lionmhar." — M'Intyre. 

 The sappy carrot and the plentiful groundsel. 



Irish : mugoman, — mugan, a mug, from the hollow bird's-nest- 

 like flower. 



( cerif olium, \ 

 Anthriscus <| vulgaris, I — Chervil. Gaelic: costag, a 



( temulentum ) 



