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Dìt/iean is frequently used in a general sense for " flower," also 

 for " darnel." 



" Tlr nan ifithcan miadar daite." 

 Land of flowers, meadow dyed. 

 '* Dìtheiìi nan gleann. " 

 The flowers of the valley. 



\\^elsh : gold iiiair, marigold. Irish : buafanan biiidht\ the yellow 

 toad. 



C. leucanthemum — Ox-eye. Gaelic : an tieonan mòr, the big 

 daisy. Am breinean-brothach ^ {bréijie, stench ; brothach, scabby). 

 Easbiiigban, from Irish easbudh, silly, idle {easbudh brothach, the 

 King's-evil). This plant was esteemed an excellent remedy for 

 that complaint. Irish : easbuig speaiii {Speam ox Easbain. Spain). 



Anthemis nobilis — Common chamomile. Camo/nhil, from 

 the Greek xa/^-ai yw-v/Aos, which Pliny informs us was applied to 

 the plant on account of its smelling hke apples. (Spanish : 

 viancinilla, a little apple.) Lus-7ian-cam-bhil (M'Kenzie), the 

 plant with drooping flowers. The plant is well distinguished by 

 its flowers, which droop, or are bent do^cn, before expansion ; but 

 though the name is thus applicable, it is only a corruption from 

 the Greek. 



" Bi'dh mionntain, f<7Wiiw//?7 s'sobhraichean 



Geur bhileach, lonach, luasganach." — M'Intyre. 

 There will be mints, chamomile, and primroses, 

 Sliarp-leaved, prattling, restless. ' 



Luibh-leighis, the healing plant. This plant is held in consider- 

 able repute, both in the popular and scientific Materia Medica. 



A. pyrethruin — Pellitory of Spain. Gaelic : his na Spáíne, 

 the Spanish weed. 



A. arvensis — Field chamomile. Irish: avnan viionla {comaii, a 

 common ; mionla, fine-foliaged. Gaelic : rnin lach). 



Matricaria inodora — Scentless May-weed. Gaelic : buidheag 

 ail arbhair, tlie corn daisy. Camo7nhit feadhain, wild chamomile. 

 Welsh : llygad yr ych, ox-eye. 



Tanacetuin vulgare — Tansy. Gaelic: Ins na Frahig, the 

 French weed. (French, tanaisie.) Irish: tamhsae, corruptions 

 {rom A thanasta. (Greek: a, privative, and OavaTos, death, i.e., 

 a plant which does not perish — a name far from apphcable to 

 this species). 



Eupatorium cannabinum — Hemp agrimony. Gaelic and 



1 Breinean-brothach was probably also applied to A. cotula, for which 

 there is no Gaelic name recorded. 



