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Helleborus viridis — Green hellebore. Gaelic : eleboKy a 

 corruption of helleborus (from the Greek cXeii/, helei?iy to cause 

 death ; and ^opa, bora^ food — poisonous food). 



" Mo shron tha stocpt a dhV/^/^^r." — M 'Donald. 

 My nose is stopped with hellebore. 



H. foetidus — Stinking hellebore. Meaca?i sleibhe^ the hill- 

 plant. 



AcLuilegia vulgaris — Columbine. Gaelic : his a cholamain^ 

 the dove's plant. Irish : cruba-leisin^ — from criiba, crouching, and 

 leise, thigh or haunch ; suggested by the form of the flower. 

 Lusan cholaui (O'Reilly), pigeon's flower. Welsh : troed y 

 glomen, naked woman's foot. 



Aconitum napellus — Monkshood. Gaelic : fuath mhadhaidh 

 (Shaw), the wolfs aversion. Curaichd mhdnaich (Armstrong), 

 monkshood. Welsh : bletddag, — from bleidd, a wolf, and tag^ 

 choke. 



Nigella damascena — Chase-the-devil. Gaelic : lus aft fhog- 

 raidh, the pursued plant. Irish : lus mhic Raonail, MacRonald's 

 wort. Not indigenous, but common in gardens. 



Pseonia oflGlcinalis — Peony. Gaelic : lus a phione. A corrup- 

 tion of FcEon, the physician who first used it in medicine, and 

 cured Plato of a wound inflicted by Hercules. Welsh : bladeu'r 

 brenin^ the king's flower. Irish : lus phoinc, 



Berberidace/e. 



Berberis vulgaris — Barberry. Gaelic : barbrag (a corruption 

 from Phoenician word barar), the brilliancy of a shell; allud- 

 ing to their shining leaves. Greek /Sep/Sepc, berberi, a shell. Freas 

 nan gear dhearc, the sour berry-bush. Freas deilgneach, the 

 prickly bush. Irish : barbrog. 



Nymph^ace^.. 



(From, vvfjicfjr], nymphe, a water-nymph, referring to their habitats.) 



NymphsBa alba — White water-liI3^ Gaelic : duileag bhaite 

 bhdn, the drowned white leaf. 



" Feur lochain is tachair, 

 An cinn an duileag Mi/V^."— M'Intyre. 

 Water, grass, and algoe, 

 Where the water-lily grows. 



*' O ///z, righ nam fleuran."— M'DONALD. 

 O lily, king of flowers. 



