Rabhagach, giving caution or warning ; a beacon. Lili b/iàu, 

 white lily. Welsh : Lili-r-dwff, water-lily. Irish : buillite. (Shaw.) 

 Nuphar luteum — Yellow water-lily. Gaelic: duileag bhaite 

 bhuidhe, the yellow drowned leaf. Lili bhuidhe n'uisge, yellow 

 water-lily, Irish : Hack laghor, the bright flag. Cabhan ab/iai/i, — 

 cabhan, a hollow plain, and abhain, of the river. 



Papaverace.í;. 

 Papaver rhcEas — Poppy. Gaelic : jueilbhcag^ sometimes 

 beilbheag, a little pestle (to which the capsule has some resem- 

 blance). 



" Le meilbheag, le noinean, 's le slan-lus. " — M'Leod. 

 With a poppy, daisy, and rib-tjiass. 



Fot/iros, corn-rose, — from ioth (Irish), corn ; ros, rose. Croiidus, 

 bent weed. Paipcan ruadh, — fiiadh, red, and paipean a corrup- 

 tion of papaver^ from papa^ pap, or pappo, to eat of pap. The 

 juice was formerly put into children's food to make them sleep. 

 Welsh : pabi. 



P. somniferum — Common opium poppy. Gaelic : codalian, 

 from codal or cada/, sleep. 



Chelidonium majus. Common celandine (a corruption of 

 XeXtSojF, f/itiidon, a swallow). Gaelic : an ceaim riiadh^ the 

 red head. Irish : lacha cheann ruadh, the red - headed duck. 

 Welsh : llysie y wetmol, swallow-wort. The flower is yellow, not 

 red. Aonsgoch is another Gaelic name for swallow-wort, mean- 

 ing the lonely flower, — aon, one or alone, and sgoth^ a flower. 



Glaucium luteum — Yellow horned poppy. Gaelic : barrag 

 ruadh (?), the valiant or strong head. The flower is yellow, not 

 red. 



FUiMARIACE^. 



(From /umus, smoke. " The smoke of these plants being said 

 by the ancient exorcists to have the power of expelling evil 

 spirits " (Jones). French : fume terre.) 



Fumaria officinalis — Fumitory. Gaelic : lus deathach thal- 

 mhaiiin (Armstrong), the earth -smoke plant. Irish: deatach 

 thalmhuiii (O'Reilly), earth - smoke. Welsh : imog y ddaer, 

 earth-smoke. Another Irish name is camaii scarraigh (O'Reilly), 

 — caman, crooked, and scoradh, to scatter. 



^ Ruadh does not mean absolutely red, but reddish. Welsh : Rhydh. It 

 means also power, virtue, strong, valiant. 



