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Liís ail í' slaiiuchaidh {/hs, a wort, a plant-lierb, cliiefly used for 

 plant ; it signifies also power, force, efficacy ; slaniichaidh, a par- 

 ticipial noun from slan ; Latin, santis), the herb of the healing, 

 or healing power; a famous healing plant in olden times. 

 Deideag. Irish : deideog {ag and og, young, diminutive termina- 

 tions ; deid^ literally deud or deid, a tooth), applied to the row of 

 teeth, and also to the nipple (Gaelic, diddi ; English, titty)^ be- 

 cause like a tooth, hence to a plaything, — play, geiogaw, bo-peep, 

 a common word with nurses. 



" B'iad sid an geiltre gle ghiinn. 

 Cinn deideagan measg feoir," licc. — M 'Donald. 

 Scenes of startling beauty, 

 Plantain-heads among the grass, &c. 



Armstrong translates it "gewgaws" amongst the grass; but the 

 editor of ' Sar-obair nam Bard" Gaelach ' — see his vocabulary — 

 gives deideagan, rib -grass, which renders the line intelligible. 

 Bodaich dhubha, the black men, — children's name in Perthshire. 

 Welsh : IhvynJiidydl-penaiir. 



PARONYCHIACEyE. 



Herniaria glabra — Rupture-wort; burst -wort. Gaelic and 

 Irish : Iiis an f sic/iich (M'Kenzie), from sic, the inner skin that 

 is next the viscera in animals. '■'■ Bhrist an t sie," the inner skin 

 broke. " Mam-sic," rupture, hernia. Not growing naturally in 

 Scotland, but was formerly cultivated by herbalists as a cure for 

 hernia. 



Chenopodiace^. 



Amaranthus caudatus — Love-lies-bleeding. Gaelic : /lis a 

 g/iràid//, the love plant. Gràd/i, love. 



Spinacia oleracea — Spinage. Gaelic : bloinigean gàraidh. 

 Blonag, fat (Welsh, bloneg ; Irish, blanag) ; gàrad/i, a garden. 

 Slap chàil (M'Alpin) ; slap, to flap ; cal, cabbage. Welsh : yspi- 

 goglys. 



Beta maritima — Beet, mangel-wurzel. Gaelic: betis, biotas. 

 Irish : biatas. Welsh : beattos (evidently on account of its feed- 

 ing or life-giving qualities). Greek : jiio'i. Latin : vita, life, 

 food ; and the Gaelic : biadh, feed, nourish, fatten. Gornish : 

 bod. 



Suseda maritima — Sea-side goose grass. ) Gaelic and Irish : 



Salicornia herbacea — Glass-wort. j praiseach na mora, 



the sea pot-herb. Name applied to both plants. Y ox praiseach, 

 see Crambe maritima. 



