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large ; jna/ifa, demure, basliful). Mi/^i^hard, Mugwort {i/ii/gan, 

 in Irisli, a mug, or viugart, a hog). Irisii : bofulan ban, or 

 biiafannan ban, the white toad, or seriDent {buaf, a toad ; biiafa, 

 a serpent ; Latin : biifo, a toad) ; buafannan Hath, the grey toad 

 or serpent. Welsh : llwydlys, grey weed. 



A absinthium — Common wormwood. Gaelic : biiramaide. 

 Irish: borra motor, also bnrbtin (burr a is, a worm or caterpillar; 

 imiide, wood) — i.e., wormwood. Searbh luibh, bitter plant. 



" Chuir e air mhisg m3 Ic searbh-hiihhcan.^' — Sti'ART. 

 He liath made me drunk with wormwood. 

 " Mar a bhiiriiiaid.'" 

 Like the wormwood. 



It was formerly used instead of hops to increase the intoxi- 

 cating quality of malt liquor. Roide, gall, bitterness. Graban 

 (from Gothic, grub, dig).^ Welsh : bcrinod chwe7-7i'Iys, bitter 

 weed. 



A. abrotanum — Southernwood. Gaelic : meath chaltuiuji. 

 {Meath, Latin mitis, faint, weary, effeminate. Its strong smell 

 is said to prevent faintness and weariness. Calhiinn, from càl, 

 Latin: cald ; Italian: cala ; French: cale, a bay, sea-shore, a 

 harbour.) It grows in similar situations to A. mariiiina. Irish : 

 surabhan, suramoiit, and Welsh, siwdrmwt. The sour one {siir, 

 sour), and " southernwood," also from the same root. Welsh : 

 l/ysier cyrff, ale-wort {cyrff, Latin, ccrvisia, ale), it being fre- 

 quently used instead of hops to give a bitter taste to malt 

 liquors. 



Gnaphalium dioicum, Gr. sylvaticum — Cudweed. Gaelic : 

 cat luibh, the cat's weed. Gnàbh, or cnàmh his, the weed that 

 wastes slowly (from yvacf>áXLov), a word with which Dioscorides 

 describes a plant with white soft leaves, which served the purpose 

 of cotton. This well describes these plants. They have all 

 beautifully soft woolly leaves ; and, on account of the permanence 

 of the form and colour of their dry flowers, are called " Ever- 

 lasting." 



Filago germanica — Common cotton rose. Gaelic and Irish : 

 /iat// /us roid, the gall (or wormwood) grey weed. 



1 The occasional occurrence of Gothic roots in plants' names in tlie Western 

 Highlands and Isles, is accounted for by the conquest of these parts by the 

 Norwegians in tlie ninth century, and iha fact of their rule existing tliere 

 for at least two centuries under the sway of the Norwegian kings of Man and 

 the Isles. 



