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The aloe of Scripture^ must not be confounded with the bitter 

 herb well known in medicine. 



LlLTACE.t. 



Lilium— Greek : Xdpiov. From the Celtic: //. colour, hue. 

 Welsh : ///;/. Gaelic : //. 



" A mhaise-mhna is ailidh /i ! "— Fixgalian Poems. 

 Thou fair-faced beauty. 



"Lily seems to signify a flower in general." — Wedgewood. 

 Gaelic and Irish : lilidh or ////. 



Convallaria majalis — Lily of the valley. Gaelic: //// >ian 

 Ion. Lili nan gleann. 



" Air ghilead, mar //// nan lòintean.'' — M'Uonald. 



White as the lily of the valley. 

 " Is ròs Sharon mise lili nait gleann." — Stv art. 



I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the glen. 



" The lily of Scripture was probably Lilium c/uilccdoniciitn." — 

 Balfour. 



Allium — The derivation of this word is said to be from all 

 (Celtic), hot, burning. There is no such word. The only word 

 that resembles it in sound, and with that signification, is sgallta, 

 burned, scalded; hence, perhaps, " scallion," the English for a 

 young onion. Latin : calor. 



A, cepa {cep, Gaelic: ccap, a head) — The onion. Gaelic: 

 uin?ieafi. Irish : oinninn. Welsh : wyyiwyn. French : oignon. 

 German : onjon. Latin : unio. Gaelic : siobaid, siobann. Welsh : 

 sibol. Scotch : sybo. German : ziuiebel, scallions or young 

 onions. Ciitharlan, a bulbous plant. In Lome, and elsewhere 

 along the W. Highlands, frequently called Sronamh (probably 

 from Sron and anih, raw in the nose, ox pungent in the nose). 



A. porrum- — Garden leek. Gaelic and Irish : Icigis, leiceas, 

 leicis. German : lauc/i, leek. 



*' Agus na leicis agus na h^ninneiiiean.'' — NtJMBERS, xi. 5. 

 And the leeks and the onions. 



Irish : bugha (Shaw), leeks, fear. O'Clery, in his ' Vocabulary,' 

 published a.d. 1643, describes it thus: '■'■ Biigh, i.e., luibh gorm 

 no glàs ris a samhailtean suile bhios gorm no glas." That is, a 

 blue or grey plant, to which the eye is compared if it be blue or 



^ Aquilaria agallochum. 



- "Porrum" from the Celtic, pari, to eat, to graze, to browse. 



