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S. arvensis — Gaelic : bliocii fochain, the corn milk-plant; blioch, 

 milky \ focha/i, yotmg corn. ^Velsh : Had/i ysgailai, milk-thistle 

 {ysgal/en, a thistle). 



Hieracium pilosella — Mouse-ear hawkweed. Gaelic : dims 

 hull, motise-ear \ ditas Hath, the grey ear. 



H. murorum — Wall hawkweed. Irish : sntblian iia iiiiu; the 

 pig's snout {sriihh, a snout). 



Taraxacum dens-leonis — Dandelion. Gaelic: hcaniaii bride. 



"Am bcarnan bride s'a pheighinn rioghil." — iM'lNTVRE. 

 The dandelion and the penny-royal. 



Beam, a notch, from its notched leaf; biìde^ ixom brigh, sap, 

 juice, with which the plant abounds ; bior nam bride {bior, sharp, 

 tooth-like) ; Jiacal leomhain, lion's teeth. Welsh : dant y Ucw, 

 the same meaning as dandelion {dent de lion) and leontodon (Xewv, 

 a lion ; and oSov;, a tooth), from the tooth like formation of the 

 leaf. Castearbhan nam nine (Shaw)— The pig's sour-stemmed 

 plant. Irish : caisearbhan, cais-f searbhain, castearbhan {cais, a 

 word of many significations, but here from cas, a foot ; caiseag, 

 the stem of a plant ; searbh, bitter, sour). 



Cichorium intybus — Succory or Chicory. Gaelic : ins an t- 

 suicair, a corruption from dchoriiim, which was so named from 

 the Egyptian word chikoùryeh. Pliny remarks that the Egyp- 

 tians made their chicory of much consequence, as it or a similar 

 plant constituted half the food of the common people. It is 

 also called in Gaelic castea?-bhan, the sour-stemmed plant. 



C. endiva— Endive. Gaelic : enach ghàraidh {enach, corrup- 

 tion of endiva, "from the Arabic name /lendibeh" (Du Théis), 

 gàrad/i, a garden). Welsh : ysgali y meirch, horse-thistle. 



Lapsana communis— Nipple-wort. Gaelic : duilleag mhaith, 

 the good leaf; duilleag m/iin, the smooth leaf Irish : duilleog 

 bhrighid, the efficacious leaf, or perhaps St Bridget's leaf, the 

 saint who, according to Celtic superstition, had the power of 

 revealing to girls their future husbands. French : herbe aiix 

 mamelles, having been formerly applied to the breasts of women 

 to allay irritation caused by nursing. Duilleog bhragliad, or 

 braighe, the breast-leaf. 



1 " Most certainly /;/7i/c' comes from its being in flower plentifully on latha 

 fheill-bnde. "— Ferg U sso X . 



Bride is also a corruption of Bbrighit, St Bridget. Latha Fhcill-Brr^hdc, 

 Candlemas, St Bridget's Day. 



