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large; manta, demure, bashful). Mj/ghard, Mugwort {iniigan, 

 in Irish, a mug^ or inugarf, a hog). Irish : bofulan ban, or 

 buafannan ban, the white toad, or serpent {bnaf, a toad ; buafa, 

 a serpent ; Latin : bnfo, a toad) ; buafannan Hath, the grey toad 

 or serpent. Welsh : Ihvydlys, grey weed. 



A absinthium — Common wormwood. Gaelic : buramaide. 

 Irish : bor?^a?nofor, also burbun {burrais, a worm or caterpillar ; 

 maide, wood)— /.^., wormwood. Searbh luibh, bitter plant. 



" Chuir e air mhisg m3 le searbh-luibhean.'''' — Stuart. 

 He hath made me drunk with wormwood. 



" Mar a hhurmaidy 



Like the wormv.-ood. ' " " 



It was formerly used instead of hops to increase the intoxi- 

 cating quality of malt liquor. Roide, gall, bitterness. Gi'aban 

 (from Gothic, grnb, dig).^ Welsh : bermod chiverivlys, bitter 

 weed. 



A. abrotanum — Southernwood. Gaelic : ineatJi chaltuinn. 

 (Meath, Latin mitis, faint, weary, effeminate. Its strong smell 

 is said to prevent faintness and weariness. Cnltuinn, from cal, 

 Latin: cald ; Italian: cala ; French: cale, a bay, sea-shore, a 

 harbour.) It grows in similar situations to A. maritima. Irish : 

 siirabhan, suramont, and Welsh, siwdrmwt. The sour one {sur, 

 sour), and " southernwood," also from the same root. Welsh : 

 llysier cyrff, ale-wort {cyrff, Latin, cervisia, ale), it being fre- 

 quently used instead of hops to give a bitter taste to malt 

 liquors. 



Gnaphalium dioicum, G. sylvaticum — Cudweed. Gaelic : 

 cat luibhy the cat's weed. Gndbh, or cndnih lus, the weed that 

 wastes slowly (from yvtt</)aXtov), a word with which Dioscorides 

 describes a plant with white soft leaves, which served the purpose 

 of cotton. This well describes these plants. They have all 

 beautifully soft woolly leaves ; and, on account of the permanence 

 of the form and colour of their dry flowers, are called " Ever- 

 lasting." 



Filago germanica — Common cotton rose. Gaelic and Irish : 

 Hath his void, the gall (or wormwood) grey weed. 



1 The occasional occurrence of Gothic roots in plants' names in the Western 

 HighLinds and Isles, is accounted for by the conquest of these parts by the 

 Norwegians in the ninth century, and the fact of their rule existing there 

 for at least two centuries under the sway of the Norwegian kings of Man and 

 the Isles. 



