Juglans regia — The Walnut. Gaelic : craobh-ghaUchno — gall, 

 a foreigner, a stranger ; cno, a nut. 



LeguminifeRíí;. 



Gaelic : li/is feid/ileagach, pod-bearing plants. Bar gi/c, papil- 

 ionaceous flowers (Armstrong). For-cochullach, leguminous. 

 ^^ Bar gnc air mheuraibh nosara." — M'Intvre. 

 Blossoms on sappy branches. 

 Sarothamnus scoparius — Broom. Gaelic : bcalaidh or heal- 

 uid/i (probably from bcal, Baal, and i/id/i, favour), the plant 

 that Belus favoured, it being yellow-flowered (see Caltha paliistris). 

 Yellow was the favourite colour of the Druids (who were wor- 

 shippers of Belus), and also of the bards. Ossian describes the 

 sun " grian b/iidd/ie" the yellow sun ; M'Intyre, his Isabel, as 



" Iseabel og 



An or fhuilt bhuidh." 



Young Isabel with the golden-yellow hair. 



Irish : bniin ; and Welsh : ysgub. Gaelic : sgiiab, a brush made 

 from the broom. Latin : scoparius. Giolcach slcibhe {glide, a 

 reed, a cane, a leafless twig ; sleibhe, of the hill). 



The badge of the Clan Forbes. 



Cytisus laburnum — Laburnum. Gaelic: bealuidh fraiigach 

 (in Breadalbane), in some parts sasimach, French or English 

 broom (Ferguson). Fraiigach is very often affixed to names of 

 plants of foreign origin. This tree was introduced from Switzer- 

 land in 1596. Craobh obnin, a corruption of laburnum. 



Ulex — Name from the Celtic ec or ac, a prickle (Jones). 



U. europaeus — Furze, whin, gorse. Gaelic and Irish : conasg, 

 from Irish co?ias, war, because of its armed or prickly appearance. 

 Welsh : eií/iiji, prickles. 



" Lan cojiasgis phreasaibh." — Old Song. 

 Full of furze and bushes. 

 Not common in the Highlands, but plentiful about Fortingall, 

 Perthshire. 



Ononis arvensis — Rest - harrow. Gaelic and Irish : srcang 

 bogha, bowstring. ^^■ elsh : tagadr, stop the plough ; eithin yr eir, 

 ground prickles. Scotch : camiiiock, from Gaelic cam, crooked. 



Trigonella ornithopodioides — Fenugreek, Greek hay. Gaelic : 

 ioiintag-grcugach (Armstrong), Greek nettle ; crubh-eoln, Birds' 

 shoe. Welsh : y grog-wryan. 



Trifolium repens — White or Dutch clover. Gaelic and Irish: 



