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Lus ail f slanuchaidh {/us, a wort, a plant-lierb, cluefly used for 

 plant ; it signifies also power, force, efficacy ; slanuchaidh, a par- 

 ticipial noun from slan ; Latin, sanus), the herb of the healing, 

 or healing power; a famous healing plant in olden times. 

 Deideag. Irish : deideog (ag and og, young, diminutive termina- 

 tions ; deid, literally deud or deid, a tooth), applied to the row of 

 teeth, and also to the nipple (Gaelic, diddi ; English, titty), be- 

 cause like a tooth, hence to a plaything, — play, geivgaw, bo-peep, 

 a common word with nurses. 



" B'iad sid an geiltre gle ghrinn. 

 Cinn deideagan measg feoir," ik.z. — M 'Donald. 

 Scenes of startling beauty, 

 J^lantain-heads among the grass, &c. 



Armstrong translates it "gewgaws" amongst the grass; but the 

 editor of * Sar-obair nam Bard Gaelach ' — see his vocabulary — 

 gives deideagan, rib -grass, which renders the line intelligible. 

 Bodaich dhubha, the black men, — children's name in Perthshire. 

 Welsh : llwynhidydl-penaiir. 



PARONYCHIACEiE. 



Herniaria glabra — Rupture- wort ; burst -wort. Gaelic and 

 Irish : lus an f sicnich (M'Kenzie), from sic, the inner skin that 

 is next the viscera in animals. " Bhrist an t sic^^ the inner skin 

 broke. " Mam-sic," rupture, hernia. Not growing naturally in 

 Scotland, but was formerly cultivated by herbalists as a cure for 

 hernia. 



CHENOPODIACEiE. 



Amaranthus caudatus — Love-lies-bleeding. Gaelic : lus a 

 ghraidh, the love plant. Gradh, love. 



Spinacia oleracea — Spinage. Gaelic : bloinigean garaidh. 

 Blofiag, fat (Welsh, bloneg ; Irish, blanag):, garadh, a garden. 

 Slap chail (M'Alpin) ; slap, to flap ; cal, cabbage. Welsh : yspi- 

 goglys. 



Beta maritima — Beet, mangel-wurzel. Gaelic: betis, biotas. 

 Irish : biatas. Welsh : beatws (evidently on account of its feed- 

 ing or life-giving qualities). Greek : ySto?. Latin : vita, life, 

 food ; and the Gaelic : biadh, feed, nourish, fatten. Cornish : 

 boot. 



Suaeda marinma — Sea-side goose grass. ) Gaelic and Irish : 



Salicornia herbacea — Glass-wort. j praiseach na niara, 



the sea pot-herb. Name applied to both plants. Y ox praiseach, 

 see Crambe maritima. 



