Gaelic : hiadh nan eoinca?i, birds' food. Irish : billcog nan cun, 

 the leaf of the birds. 



"Timcheall thulmanan diàmhair 



Ma 'm bi'm biadh-ionain fas." — M 'Donald. 

 Around sheltered hillocks 

 Where the wood-sorrel grows. 



Feada coillc, candle of the woods, name given to the flower ; 

 fcad/i, a candle or rush. 



" Mar sin is leasachan soilleir, 

 Do à\\^ /heada-coille na'n cos." — M 'Donald. 

 Like the flaming light 

 Of the wood-sorrel of the caverns. 



Celastrace^. 



Euonymus europseus— Common spindle-tree. Gaelic and 

 Irish : oir,feoras,—oir, the east point, east. " A tir an oir," from 

 the land of the East {Oirip, Europe), being rare in Scotland and 

 Ireland, but common on the Continent. Oir and feoir also 

 mean a border, edge, limit, it being commonly planted in hedges. 

 Whether the name has any reference to these significations it is 

 very difficult to determine with certainty. Oir, the name of the 

 thirteenth letter, O, of the Gaelic and Irish alphabet. It is 

 worthy of notice that all the letters were called after trees or 

 plants :— 



Rhamnace/e. 

 Rhamnus (from Gaelic i-anik, Celtic ram, a branch, wood). 



" Talamh nan raruh.'^- — OssiAN. 

 The country of woods. 



The Greeks changed the word to pá/xi/o? and the Latins to ra/ni/s. 

 R. catharticus — Prickly buckthorn. Gaelic : ranih droighionn, 

 prickly wood. Welsh : rhafiiwydden, — rhaf, to spread; wydd, 

 tree. 



