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Dithean is frequently used in a general sense for " flower," also 

 for "darnel." 



""lir nan cfithean miadar daite." 

 Land of flowers, meadow dyed. 

 '* Dlthein nan gleann. " 

 The flowers of the valley, 



Welsh : gold inair, marigold. Irish : buafanan biiid/ie, the yellow 

 toad. 



C. leucanthemum — Ox-eye. Gaelic : an neonan mdr, the big 

 daisy. Am breinean-brothach ^ (breine, stench ; brothach^ scabby). 

 Easbiiigban, from Irish easbudk, silly, idle {easbndh brothach, the 

 King's-evil). This plant was esteemed an excellent remedy for 

 that complaint. Irish : easbiiig speaifi {Speam or Easbatn^ Spain). 



Anthemis nobilis — Common chamomile. Camomhil, from 

 the Greek xa/^ac fxr)Xo<s, which Pliny informs us was applied to 

 the plant on account of its smelling like apples. (Spanish : 

 mancinilla, a little apple.) Lus-nancani-bhil (M'Kenzie), the 

 plant with drooping flowers. The plant is well distinguished by 

 its flowers, which droop, or are bent doivn, before expansion ; but 

 though the name is thus applicable, it is only a corruption from 

 the Greek. 



" Bi'dh mionntain, r«w^w/^^7 s'sobhraichean 



Geur bhileach, lonach, luasganach." — M'Intyre, 

 There will be mints, chamomile, and primroses, 

 Sharp-leaved, prattling, restless. 



Luibh-leighis, the healing plant. This plant is held in consider- 

 able repute, both in the popular and scientific Materia Medica. 



A. pyrethruin — Pellitory of Spain. Gaelic : Itis na Spdine, 

 the Spanish weed. 



A. arvensis — Field chamomile. Irish: conian mionla {coman^ a 

 common ; mionla^ fine-foliaged. Gaelic : niiti lack). 



Matricaria inodora — Scentless May-weed. G3.qY\c : butd/ieag 

 an arbhair, the corn daisy. Camomhi/ fead/iain, wild chamomile. 

 Welsh: llygad yr ych^ ox-eye. 



Tanacetum vulgare — Tansy. Gaelic : Ins na Fraing, the 

 French weed. (French, tanaisie.) Irish : tamhsae, corruptions 

 from Athanasia. (Greek : a, privative, and Oavaros, death, i.e., 

 a plant which does not perish — a name far from applicable to 

 this species). 



Eupatorium cannabinum — Hemp agrimony. Gaelic and 



1 Breinean-brothach was probably also applied to A. cotula, for which 

 there is no Gaelic name recorded. 



