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Resedaceae. 



Butde-mor. mor, " noble, great " ; related to 

 W. mawr. "noble yellow." Resedaluteola. wild 

 woad. dyer's weed. 



Violarieae. 



Bioi> a i.kitii). biod, "a world"; leitid, "a 

 peer." "a world's peer." Fanaisge. aisge, "a 

 present"; fan, "slope." "a present from a slope 

 or hank." Sailcuac. a narrow or curled guard. 

 Viola, silvestris. dog's violet. 



SAILCUAC. Viola ml a nil a. sweet violet. 



Gorman searraig or Goirmin searrad. ?pos- 

 silily from scarad, "a separation," or sgarad, "a 

 fissure." Gorman and Goirmin, I think, refer to- 

 gorm, "blue"; hence "blue fissures" or "blue 

 streaks." SAILCUAC. Viola tricolor, herb trinity, 

 kiss-at-t he-garden-gate. 



Polygaleae. 

 Lus BAINE or Lus an CAINE, "the little 

 milk herb." Polygala vulgaris, milkwort. 



Caryophylleae. 



COGAL or CAGAL. cogal, " ears of barley," from 

 place where found. Lychnis gith ago. corn cockle. 



CoiREAN COILLEAC. ? coire, " a ring," " girdle," 

 or •' cavern " ; and coille "sylvan " ; while coilleacis 

 " a cock." Lychnis d-loica. red campion, bladder 

 flower. 



CAOROG LEANA. caorog, "a spark"; leana, 

 '• meadow." Hence " a little meadow spark." 

 Lydmis flos-cuculi. meadow pink, wild-williams. 



Flig. Fliod. Flioc or Fliuc. fliod, "a wen, 

 excrescence." Stellaria media, chickweed. 



Tursarraix or Ttjhsacain. " diy bags." Stel- 

 laria holostea. greater stitchwort. fairy flax (Tipp.). 



TURSARRAININ. Tursacainin. Stellaria gra'r 

 miitca. lesser stitchwort. fairy flax (Tipp.). 



Ci.uain lin. cluain, " a plain, lawn " ; lin, " flax." 

 CABROIS. CORRAN--LIN. corran, " sicklehook." 

 Spergula arrensis. spurrey. 



Hypericineae. 



Beacnuad bejxix or B. coluimcille or 

 B. PiRiox. beacnuad, " new bee," "St. Columcille's 

 bee," "the bees' fair circle" (firion). Caod- 

 COLUIMCILLE. caod, "tear." "tear of St. Colum- 

 cille." ALLAS Miure. "Mary, the most high." 

 Lai. a buide. "yellow swan." Hypericwn per- 

 foratum. St. John's wort. 



Meastorc ai.ta orCAOiL. Hypericum, androsae- 

 111 11 in. tutsaw. 



Malvaceae. 



LAEMAD. Althaea ojlirinalis. marsh-mallow. 



Lus xa Mioi. won. miol, "any animal"; mor, 

 "great, big." Milmeacax, " honey root." Oris, 

 "itch." Ucas FIADLMN or PITRAIN, "wild nap." 

 ucaire, " napper of freize." Maha sylvestris mallow. 



Ucas prancac, -French nap plant." Malm 



rot 11 nth [folia, dwarf mallow. 



{To be continued.') 



OWENS COLLEGE NEW PHYSICAL 

 LABORATORY. 



rpWO of the constituent Colleges of the Victoria 



-*- University — the Owens College, Manchester, 

 and Liverpool University College are indeed 



fortunate as regards bequests and donations. They 

 apparently vie one with the other in opening new 

 wings and equipping new departments through the 

 generosity of private individuals. On .June 29th 

 last an imposing ceremony took place at the Owens 

 College, when Lord Rayleigh formally opened the 

 new I'hysics Laboratory. This new buildin 

 replete with every arrangement one could wish for 

 carrying on experimental research. Space will 

 only permit attention being drawn to a few of 

 these. 



Extreme ranges of temperature are easily ob- 

 tained, as steam is always available in most of the 

 rooms. An electric furnace is provided capable of 

 producing a temperature of about (>,000° Fahren- 

 heit, while for the other extreme the necessary 

 machinery is installed for making liquid air, which, 

 compressed by means of a pump, produces a tem- 

 perature of 300° below zero. 



The knowledge of accurate time intervals, 

 which is important in many investigations, renders 

 the possession of accurate clocks, expensive as 

 they are, absolutely imperative. The clock to be 

 placed in the basement of the laboratory will 

 probably be the most perfect clock in the country. 

 It is made by Dr. Riefler, of Munich, and has in 

 its original form been tested in many observatories 

 and found to keep more perfect time than the older 

 types of clock. So valuable a timepiece must of 

 course be kept locked up in a room, and will not 

 be generally accessible, but time is supplied to r he- 

 different parts of the laboratory by electric trans- 

 mission from a second clock. The lecture-rooms 

 and the larger rooms of the laboratory will all con- 

 tain dials showing time correct to within a few 

 seconds. 



Special attention has been paid to the optical 

 outfit of the laboratory. One of its features will 

 be a room on the top floor which contains Rowland's 

 diffraction grating. An idea of the difficulty ex- 

 perienced in constructing these gratings may be 

 obtained from the fact that it occasionally take- 

 three or four years before a satisfactory grating is 

 manufactured. The one supplied to the College 

 has been certified by Professor Rowland as excep- 

 tionally good. 



The Photographic laboratory is in the basement. 

 The Observatory, placed on the top of the building, 

 contains the 10-in. telescope presented by Sir 

 Thomas S. Bazley. The Electro-technical labora- 

 tory, built and equipped in memory of Dr. John 

 Hopkinson. has been pi'0\ ided, as far as the means 

 at the disposal of the College have allowed, with 

 the most modern form of machinery. Considerable 

 •space has been assigned to an electro-chemical 



