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Anethum graveolens — Strong- scented or common dill. 

 Gaelic and Irish: dile (M'Donald) (Latin: diligo), — • dile, a 

 word in Gaelic meaning love, affection, friendship. The whole 

 plant is very aromatic, and is used for medicinal preparations. 



Sium (from sin, " water in Celtic," I.oudon), perhaps from 

 sjo (Gothic), water, lake, sea. 



S. sisarum — Skirrets. Gaelic : cnimagaii (Shaw), from crom, 

 bent, crooked, from the form of its tubers. The tubers were 

 boiled and served up with butter, and were declared by Worl- 

 ridge, in 1682, to be "the sweetest, whitest, and most pleasant 

 of roots ; " formerly cultivated in Scotland under the name of 

 "crummock," a corruption of the Gaelic name. 



S. angustifolium— Water-parsnip. G^qWc : fohic/ida?i (Arm- 

 strong), from folac/id, luxuriant vegetation ; a/i, water. Irish : 

 cosadh diibhadh, the great water-parsnip (O'Reilly), {cos, a foot, 

 stalk, shaft, and diihh, great, prodigious). 



Pastinaca sativa — Parsnip. Gaelic: incacaii-an-righ, the 

 king's root, royal root. Ciirran gcal (from ciir, to sow, gcal, 

 white). Irish : cuiridin ban, the same meaning {ciiirim, I plant 

 or sow). Welsh: j//orft/i g7C'}>Hio/i, field- carrot. 



.ffigopodium podagraria — Goat-, gout-, or bishop - weed. 

 Gaelic : ///s an casbiiig, — easbnig, a bishop. A name also given to 

 ChrysantJicììiiim ienca/it/iemum, but with a different signification. 



Heracleum sphondylium — Cow-parsnip. Gaelic : od/iaran, 

 from odhar (Greek : wxpos ; English : ochre), pale, dun, yellow- 

 ish, in reference to the colour of the flower. Meacan-a-chnddh, 

 the cow's plant. The plant is wholesome and nourishing for 

 cattle. Giiiinachan spiitachaÌ7i, squirt -guns. Children's name 

 for the plant, because they make squirt-guns from its hollow 

 stems. 



Daucus carota — Carrot. Gaelic : cm-ran (from cur, to soiv), 

 a root like that of the carrot. Carrait, corruption from carota, 

 which is said to be derived from the Celtic root car, red, from 

 the colour of the root. Muran — (Welsh : moron), a plant with 

 tapering roots. Irish : ciirran bhuidhe, the yellow root. 

 " JMiiran biiogliar 's an grunnasg lionmhar."— M'Intyre. 

 The sappy carrot and the plentiful groundsel. 

 Irish : viugoman, — mugan, a mug, from the hollow bird's-nest- 

 like flower. 



( cerifolium, \ 



Anthriscus 'vulgaris, — Chervil. Gaelic: cosfag, a 



( temulentum | 



