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The aloe of Scripture^ must not be confounded with the bitter 

 herb well known in medicine. 



LlLIACE^. 



Lilium — Greek: Xupiov. From the Celtic: //. colour, hue. 

 Welsh : l/iu. Gaelic : //. 



" A mhaise-mhna is ailidh li ! "— Fingalian Poems. 

 Thou fair-faced beauty, 



"Lily seems to signify a flower in general." — Wedgewood. 

 Gaelic and Irish : lilidh or /}//. 



Convallaria majalis — Lily of the valley. Gaelic: //// tian 

 Ion. Lili nan gleann. 



" Air ghilead, mar lili nan lbi7ttean.'''' — M 'Donald. 

 White as the lily of the valley. 



" Is ros Sharon mise lili nan gleann." — Stuart. 

 I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the glen. 



" The lily of Scripture was probably Lilium chalcedoniciimy — 

 Balfour. 



Allium — The derivation of this word is said to be from all 

 (Celtic), hot, burning. There is no such word. The only word 

 that resembles it in sound, and with that signification, is sgallta, 

 burned, scalded; hence, perhaps, " scallion," the English for a 

 young onion. Latin : calor. 



A. cepa {cepj Gaelic : ceap, a head) — The onion. Gaelic : 

 uinnean. Irish : oinninn. Welsh : wynwyn. French : oignon. 

 German : otijon. Latin : nnio. Gaelic : siobaid, siobann. Welsh : 

 sibol. Scotch : sybo. German : ziviebel, scallions or young 

 onions. Cut/iarlan, a bulbous plant. In Lome, and elsewhere 

 along the W. Highlands, frequently called Srojia?n/i (probably 

 from Sron and amh, raw in the nose^ ox pungent in the 7wse). 



A. porrum^ — Garden leek. Gaelic and Irish : leigis^ leiceas, 

 leicis. German : lauch, leek. 



*' Agus na leicis agus na \\''uinneinea7i.''^ — NUMBERS, xi. 5. 

 And the leeks and the onions. 



Irish : bugha (Shaw), leeks, fear. O'Clery, in his ' Vocabulary,' 

 published a.d. 1643, describes it thus: ^^ Bugh, i.e., luibh gorm 

 no gl^s ris a samhailtean sliile bhios gorm no glks." That is, a 

 blue or grey plant, to which the eye is compared if it be blue or 



^ Aqiiila7'ia agallochum. 



^ *'Porrum " from the Celtic, pori, to eat, to graze, to browse. 



