Rabhagach^ giving caution or warning; a beacon. Lili bhdn, 

 white lily. Welsh : Z///-r-^z£//', water-lily. In^h : buillite. (Shaw.) 

 Nuphar luteum — Yellow water-lily. Gaelic: duileag bhaite 

 bhiddhe, the yellow drowned leaf. Lili bhuidhe n'uisge, yellow 

 water-lily. Irish : liach laghor, the bright flag. Cabhan abhain^ — 

 cabhan^ a hollow plain, and abhain^ of the river. 



Papaverace/e. 



Papaver rhoeas — Poppy. Gaelic : meilbheag^ sometimes 

 beilb/ieag, di little pestle (to which the capsule has some resem- 

 blance). 



" Le meilbheag, le noinean, 's le slan-lus. " — M'Leod. 

 With a poppy, daisy, and rib-grass. 



Fothros, corn-rose, — from ioth (Irish), corn ; ros, rose. Cromlus^ 

 bent weed. Paipean ruad/i, — ruadh^ red, and paipean a corrup- 

 tion of papaver^ from papa^ pap, or pappo, to eat of pap. The 

 juice was formerly put into children's food to make them sleep. 

 Welsh : pabi. 



P. somniferum — Common opium poppy. Gaelic : codalian, 

 from codal or cadal, sleep. 



Chelidonium majus. Common celandine (a corruption of 

 XcAiSwv, chelidon^ a swallow). Gaelic : an ceann ruadh^ the 

 red head. Irish : lacha cheann ruadh^ the red - headed duck. 

 Welsh : llysie y weufiol, swallow-wort. The flower is yellow, not 

 red. Aonsgoch is another Gaelic name for swallow-wort, mean- 

 ing the lonely flower, — aon^ one or alone, and sgoth^ a flower. 



Glaucium luteum — Yellow horned poppy. Gaelic : barrag 

 ruadh (/), the valiant or strong head. The flower is yellow, not 

 red. 



FUMARIACE^E. 



(From fiDmts, smoke. " The smoke of these plants being said 

 by the ancient exorcists to have the power of expelling evil 

 spirits " (Jones). French : fume terre.) 



Fumaria officinalis — Fumitory. Gaelic : lus deathach thal- 

 mhainn (Armstrong), the earth - smoke plant. Irish : deatach 

 thalmhuin (O'Reilly), earth - smoke. W^elsh : mwg y ddaer, 

 earth-smoke. Another Irish name is ca;nan scarraigh (O'Reilly), 

 — catnan, crooked, and scaradh, to scatter. 



^ Ruadh does not mean absolutely red, but reddish. Welsh : Rhydh. It 

 means also power, virtue, strong, valiant. 



