Cardamine pratensis— Cuckoo flower, ladies' smock. Gaelic : 

 plur na cubhaig, the cuckoo-flower. Gleoran, from gkote, hand- 

 some, pretty. The name is given to other cresses as well. 

 Biolair-gliriagaiu, the bright sunny dainty. 



Cakile maritimum — Sea gilly-flower rocket. Gaelic : fearsaid- 

 eag; meaning uncertain, but probably from Irish saide, a seat 

 (Latin, sedes), the sitting individual — from its procumbent habit. 



Nasturtium officinalis — Water-cress. Gaelic, biolair, a dainty, 

 or that which causes the nose to smart, hence agreeing with 

 nasturiium (Latin : riasus, the nose, and tortus, tormented). Dur- 

 lus, — dur, water, and lus, plant. Dobhar-Iiis, — dohhar, water. 

 Welsh : benvyr dtufr, Avater-cress. The Gaelic and Irish bards 

 used these names indefinitely for all cresses. 



' ' Sa bhiolair luidneach, shliòm-chluasach. 

 Glas, chruinn-cheannach, chaoin ghorm-neaIach|; 

 Is i fas glan, uchd-ard, gilmeineach, 

 Fuidh barr geal iomlan, sonraichte." — M'Intyre. 



Its drooping, smooth, green, i-ound-leaved water-cress growing so radiantly, 

 breast-high, trimly; under its remarkably perfect white flower. 

 ^' Dobhrach bhallach mhin." — M'Intyre. 

 Smooth-spotted water-cress. 



Sisymbrium sophia — Flixweed. Gaelic : ftieal Mhi/ire, the 

 Virgin Mary's fennel. Welsh : piblys, pipe-weed. 



Erysimum alliaria — Garlic mustard, sauce alone. Gaelic : 

 garhiiraithcach, rough, threatening. 



Cheiranthus cheiri — Wallflower, gilly-flower. Gaelic : lus leth 

 an saui/iraid/i, half the summer plant. Irish : the same. Welsh : 

 blodeii gorphenaf, July flower or gilly-flower. Wedgwood says 

 gilly-flower is from the French girojlèe. 



Brassica rapa — Common turnip. Gaelic, neup ; Irish, neip ; 

 Welsh, maipen ; Scotch, neep (and /lavcw, French, navet) ; 

 corruptions from Latin napus. 



B. campestris — Wild navew. Gaelic : neup fiadJiain, wild 

 turnip. 



B. oleracea^Seakale or cabbage. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 

 bhaidhe, the pot-herb of the wave {baid/ie, in Irish, a wave. 

 Morran, — mor (Welsh), the sea, its habitat the seaside. Cal 

 colbhairt — the kale with stout fleshy stalks (from colbh, a stalk 

 of a plant, and art, flesh), cal or cadhal. Welsh : cawl, kale. 

 Gaelic: cál-cearslach {cearslach, globular), cabbage; cal gruidhean 

 (with grain like flowers), cauliflower ; colag (a little cabbage), 

 cauliflower; garad/i càil, a kitchen-garden. 



