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Narthecium ossifragum — Bog asphodel. Gaelic and Irish : 

 hlioch, bliochan, from blioch, milk. Welsh : giuactiu- ire?iin, king's 

 lance. 



" Nuair thigheadh am buaichaill a mach, 



'Sa gabhadh e mu chill a chruidh 



Mu'n cuairt do Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 



A bhuail 'air m bu trie am bliochd.'^ — M'Leod. 



When the cowherd comes forth, 



And follows his cows 



Around Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 



Often he is struck with the asphodel. 



Scilla non-scripta— Bluebell; wild hyacinth. Gaelic : ///i?//; 

 mhiiic, the pig's fear or aversion, the bulbs being very obnoxious 

 to swine. Brog na cubhaig, cuckoo's shoe. Irish : buih a itiuc. 

 Probably buth is the same as bugha (see Allium pornini), fear, 

 the pig's fear. M'Lauchainn called it lili gucagach. 

 " Lili gucagach nan cluigean." 

 The bell-flowered lily. 

 S. verna — Squill (and the Latin, scilla, from the Arabic, 

 asgyl). Gaelic : lear uineaufi, the sea-onion. Lear, the sea, the 

 surface of the sea. 



" Clos na min-/í'í7r uaine."— Ossian. 

 The repose of the smooth green sea. 



Welsh : wiiiwyn y vwr, sea-onion. 



Tulipa sylvestris — Tulip. Gaelic : tuiliop. The same name 

 in almost all European and even Asiatic countries. Persian : 

 thoùlybàn (De Souza). 



Asparagus ofl5.cinalis — Common asparagus. Gaelic : creamh 

 viac-Jiadh. Irish : creamh-iniiic fiadli, wild boar's leek or garlic. 

 The same name is given to hart's tongue fern. Asparag, from 

 the generic name cnrapaa-o-w, to tear, on account of the strong 

 prickles with which some of the species are armed. 



Kuscus — Latinised form of Celtic root ri/s, wood, husk; rus- 

 gac/i, holly. Welsh : rhysgiad, an over-growing. Also bnisciis, 

 from Celtic, bms, bruis, small branches, brushwood. 



E. aculeatus — Butcher's broom. Gaelic : calg-b/in/d/iai/i?i 

 (Armstrong). Irish: calg-bhnidhaii (Shaw) — calg, a prickle, 

 from its prickly leaves ; and briiih, bruid, a thorn, anything 

 pointed ; bnidhan, generally spelled brughan, a faggot. Or it 

 may only be a corruption from brum, broom. Calg bhealaidh, 

 the prickly broom. It was formerly used by butchers to clean 

 their blocks, hence the English name "butchers' broom." 



