legend it is called the Mermaid's Lace. This The 



little flame-like crest of undulating wrack has Gardens 



of the 

 a designation longer than itself, but in tales of Sea 



faerie we know it to be that of which the caps 

 of the pool-elves are fashioned. 



In the Isles seaweed has many local names, 

 but is always mainly divided into Yellow 

 Tails, Dark Tails, and Red Tails {Feamainn 

 bhuidhe, feamainn dubh, and feamainn dearg). 

 The first comprise all the yellowish, light- 

 brown, and olive -brown seaware ; the second 

 all the dark-green, and also all green wrack ; 

 the third, the red. The common seaware or 

 kelp or tang (Fucus vesiculosus) is generally 

 called propach, or other variant signifying 

 tangled : and the bladder - wrack, feamainn 

 bholgainn or builgeach, ' baggy-tails.' I have 

 at times collected many local names of these 

 weeds, and not a few superstitions and legends. 

 Naturally, the most poetic of these are con- 

 nected with the Chorda filum or Dead Man's 

 Hair, which has a score of popular names, from 

 ' corpsy -ropes ' to the occasional Gaelic gille- 

 mu lunn, which may be rendered ' the wave's 

 oillie ' or ' servant of the wave ' : with the 

 drifted gulf-weed, whose sea-grapes are called 

 uibhean sithein, fairy eggs, and are eagerly 

 sought for : and with the duileasg, or dulse. 

 Even to this day, in remote parts, an ancient 



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