sometimes called crowfoot. Gaelic : cearban, raggy, from its 

 divided leaves. Gair-cean, — from gair, a smile ; cean, love, ele- 

 gance. Welsh : crafra?jge y /ran, crows' claws. 



R, aquatilis — Water crowfoot. Gaelic : flean7i nisge, probably 

 from lean, to follow, and uisge, water, follower of the water. 

 Llofi na h'aibhne, the river-flax. Irish : ftcul ìnsge,—neìil, a star, 

 and uisge, water. Tuir chis, — Mr, a lord ; chis, purse (from its 

 numerous achenes). 



R. ficaria — Lesser celandine. Gaelic : grain-aigein, that which 

 produces loathing. Searraichc, a little bottle, from the form of 

 the roots. Welsh : toddedig wen, fire dissolvent ; toddi, melt, 

 dissolve. 



R. flammula — Spearwort. Gaelic: glas-leuu, — glas, green; 

 leun, a swamp. Lasair-kana, — iasair, a flame, and leana or ku?i, 

 a swamp, a spear. Welsh : blaer y guae7v, lance-point. 



R. auricomus — Goldilocks. Gaelic : follasgain ; probably 

 from follais, conspicuous. Irish : foloscain, a tadpole. The 

 Gaelic may be a corruption from the Irish, or vice versa ; also 

 gniag Mhuire, Mary's locks. 



R. repens — Creeping crowfoot. Gaelic : buigheag, the yellow 

 one. Irish : bairgi/i, more frequently bairg/iiii, a pilgrim's 

 habit. Fearban ,^carba, killing, destroying. 



R. acris — Upright meadow crowfoot. Gaelic : cearban feoir, 

 the grass rag. Irish : the same name. This plant and R. flam- 

 mula are used in the Highlands, applied in rags {cearban), for 

 raising blisters. 



R. bulbosus — Bulbous crowfoot. Gaelic : fuile thalinJiainn, 

 blood of the earth (it exhausts the soil). Welsh : crafaiige y 

 /ran, crows' claws. 



R. sceleratus — Celery-leaved crowfoot. Gaelic and Irish : 

 torachas biadJiaiu ; probably means food of which one would be 

 ofraid. 



Caltha palustris — Marsh-marigold. Gaelic : a chorrach shod, 

 the clumsy one of the marsh. Lus bJuiidhe bealtuinn, the yellow 

 plant of Beltane or May, — Bel or Baal, the sun-god, and teine, 

 fire. The name survives in many Gaelic names — e.g., Tiillibcliane, 

 the high place of the fire of Baal. 



" Beath a's calltuinn latha-fc?/////»';?;;."— M'Kay. 

 Birch and hazel first day of May. 



Irish : plubairsin from pjuhracii, plunging. Lits Afairi, Mary- 

 wort, Marygold. 



