'• Giubhas glàn na Lòchlainn, 

 Fuaight' le copar ruadli." 



Polished fir of Norway, 

 Bound with reddish copper. 



P. larix — Larch. Gaelic and Irish : Idircag. Scotch : larick. 

 Latin : larix, from the Celtic, /àr, fat, from the abundance of 

 resin the wood contains. Welsh : larswyddefi, fat wood. 



P. strobus — {Strohis, a name employed by Pliny for an east- 

 ern tree used in perfumery ) Weymouth pine. Gaelic : giiithas 

 Sasimtiach (Fergusson), the English pine. It is not English, 

 however ; it is a North American tree, but was introduced from 

 England to Dunkeld in 1725. 



Cupressus — Cypress. Irish and Gaelic: cuphair, an altera- 

 tion of Cyprus, where the tree is abundant. 



C. sempervirens — Common cypress. Gaelic : craobh b/iroin, 

 the tree of sorrow. Bron, grief, sorrow, weeping. Craobh tiaine 

 giùthais, the green fir-tree. 



" Is cosmhuil mi ri crann naine giuthais^ — IIOSEA xiv. 8. 

 I am lil<e a green fir-tree. 



The fir-tree of Scripture (Hebrew berosh and berotJi are translated 

 fir-trees) most commentators agree is the cypress. 



Thuja articulata — Thyine wood. Gaelic : fiodh-thine. 



" Agus gach uile ^\r\hf/iiodha thine." — Rev. xviii. 12. 

 And all kinds of thyine wood. 



Alteration of tliya, from Qvia, to sacrifice. Another kind of 

 pine, Hebrew, oren (Irish and Gaelic, orin/i), is translated ash 

 in Isaiah xliv. 14, and beech by O'Reilly. 



Cedar — (So called from its firmness.) Hebrew: px? <^f'^^- 

 Cednis Libani, cedar of Lebanon. Gaelic and Irish : crann 

 s/ieudar, cedar-tree. 



" Agus air uile sheiidaraihh Lcbajioiii^ — ISAIAH ii. 13. 

 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon. 



The cedar wood \i\^xv\\ontà. in Lev. xiv. 4, was T^xo\y2h\y Jimiperus 

 oxyccdriis, which was a very fragrant wood, and furnished an oil 

 that protects from decay — cedar oil (KeSptor). " Carmina linenda 

 cedro " — i.e., worthy of immortality. 



" Agus pod/i sheiidar, agus scàrlaid, agus hiosop. " 

 And cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. 

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