" 'Se 's millse na 'a caincal.'' — Beinn-Dokain. 

 It is sweeter than cinnamon. 



Canal (Welsh : canel). 



*' Rinn mi mo leabadh cubhraidli le mirr, aloe, agus canal.''' — Proverks 

 vii. 17. 



I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 



From the Hebrew : IIDJp, qi?mafnofi. Greek : Kti/a/xw/xoj/, kina- 

 nuwion. 



POLYGONACE^. 



Polygonum (from ttoAu?, many, and 701/v, knee, many knees 

 or joints). — Gaelic : lusa?i giinneach, kneed or jointed plants. 



Polygonum bistorta — Bistort, snakeweed. Gaelic and Irish : 

 bilur (O'Reilly). Seems to mean the same as biolair^ a water- 

 cress. The young shoots were formerly eaten. Welsh : lysiau'i- 

 neidr, adder's plant. 



P. amphibium — Amphibious persicaria. Gaelic and Irish : 

 gluineach an uisge, the water - kneed plant. It is often floating 

 in water. Gluineach dhearg, the red-kneed plant. Its spikes of 

 flowers are rose-coloured and handsome. Armstrong gives this 

 name to P. convolvulus^ which is evidently wrong. 



P. aviculare — Knot-grass. Gaelic and Irish : gluineach bheag 

 (O'Reilly), the small-jointed plant. 



P. convolvulus — Glimbing persicaria ; black bindweed ; 

 climbing buckwheat. Gaelic and Irish : gluifieach dhubh, the 

 dark-jointed plant. 



P. persicaria — The spotted persicaria. Gaelic and Irish : 

 gluifieach mhor, the large- jointed plant. Am boifine-fola (Fer- 

 gusson), the blood-spot. Lus chrann ceusaidh (M'Lellan), herb of 

 the tree (of) crucifixion. The legend being that this plant grew 

 at the foot of the Cross, and drops of blood fell on the leaves, 

 and so they are to this day spotted. 



P. hydropiper — Water - pepper. Gaelic : lus an fhogair 

 (M'Kenzie), the plant that drives, expels, or banishes. It had 

 the reputation of driving away pain, flies, &c. '' If a good hand- 

 ful of the hot biting arssmart be put under the horse's saddle, 

 it will make him travel the better though he were half tired 

 before " — Culpepper. Gluifieach teth, the hot-kneed plant. 



Rumex obtusifolius \ 



„ crispus V — Dock. Gaelic and Irish : copag — 



„ conglomeratus ) 

 copagach, copach^ bossy. Welsh : copa^ tuft, a top. 



