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Ervum hirsutum — Hairy vetch or tare (from err, Celtic — an', 

 Latin, tilled land). Gaelic : peasairan arhhar, corn peas. Welsh : 

 pysen y ceirch, — cehxh, oats. Gaelic : gall pheasair, a name for 

 lentils or vetch. Gall, sometimes prefixed to names of plants 

 having lowland habitats, or strangers. 



" Lan ào ghall pht-asair." — Stuart, 2 Sam. 

 Full oflen tils. 



Faba vulgaris — Bean. Gaelic : ponair. Irish : poneir. Cor- 

 nish : ponar {from the Hebrew ^ì:, picl, a bean (Levi). Gaelic : 

 ponair fratigach, French beans ; ponair airneach, kidney beans ; 

 ponair chapiiill, buckbean {Menyanthes trifoliata). 



" Gabh thugad fòs cruithneachd agus eorna, 2iga% ponair, agus peasair, agus 

 meanbh-pheasair, agus pcasair fhiadhain, agus cuir iad ann an aon soitheach, 

 agi.is dean duit fèin aran duibh." — Stuart, Ezekiel iv. 9. 



"Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and 

 millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof." 



Orobus tuberosus — Tuberous bitter vetch (from Greek, opui, 

 oro, to excite, to strengthen, and ftaix;, an ox). Gaelic and Irish : 

 rrt'/rwm/ (Armstrong), — m/>, dig; wíí?/, enjoy; 3.\so mall; Welsh: 

 7>ioel, a knob, a tuber — i.e., the tuberous root that is dug ; con-a- 

 vieille (M'Leod and Dewar). 



" Is clann bheag a trusa leolaicheann ^ 

 Buain corr an go's nam bruachagan." — M'Intvre. 

 Little children gathering . . . 

 And digging the bitter vetch from the holes in the bank. 



Corra, a crane, and ineillg, a pod, the crane's pod or peas. 

 Welsh : pys y garanod, crane's peas ; garan, a crane. " The 

 Highlanders have a great esteem for the tubercles of the roots ; 

 they dry and chew them to give a better relish to their whisky. 

 They also affirm that they are good against most diseases of the 

 thorax, and that by the use of them they are enabled to repel 

 hunger and thirst for a long time. In Breadalbane and Ross-shire 

 they sometimes bruise and steep them in water, and make an 

 agreeable fermented liquor with them, called cainn. They have 

 a sweet taste, something like the roots of liquorice, and when 

 boiled are well flavoured and nutritive, and in times of scarcity 

 have served as a substitute for bread " (Lightfoot). 



^ Leolaicheanu, probably TrolUtis eicropaits (the globe flower), from 01, 

 blachan, drink, drinking. Children frequently use the globe flower as a 

 drinking-cup. Scotch : higgle gcnuan, Liiggie, a small wooden dish ; or it 

 may be a corruption from trol or trollen, an old German word signifying 

 round, in allusion to the form of the flower, hence Trollius. 



