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1life&c. Himanthalia, lorea Lyngb., and Choi-da. filvm Linne. — Applied to 

 both species in Clare Island, to Chorda filum at Bossniindle and to 

 Himanthalia lorea. at Cloghmore. See Sc&oile&c. 



S<.\1 cu&c. Viola syhatica Fries, Wood Yiolet. — Clare Island. My informant 

 at Ballytoohy, Clare Island, believed this Gaelic name to mean the 

 Cuckoo's [Stocking] Heel, and said he had heard it so interpreted by old 

 people in the island. A correspondent from Co. Mayo suggests that the 

 name may mean the Heel of the Drinking-Horn, the shape of the spur of 

 the Yiolet resembling the base of the old Irish Cu<sc or drinking-cup. 



S&iLe&n. Salixawrita Linne, Bound-leaved Willow. — Clare Island ; also used 

 in Iar Con naught. See Opa-nti pnomc^. 



Saiiia bo, Cow Sorrel. Rv.mex Acetosa Linne, Common Sorrel. — Clare Island. 

 I have from Kerry and Galway the name Saitia, simply, for this species. 



S&rii& c&oji&c, Sheep's Sorrel. Rwmex Aeetosella Linne. — -General in Clare 

 Island as it is in Connemara. 



Sc^oile^c. Himanthalia lorea Lyngb. — The name is applied to Laminaria at 

 Cloghmore, to Himanthalia at Binvyle. The word is derived from the verb 

 ScAoitim, to scatter or spread loosely, in allusion to the waving fronds. 



Sq\& cboc, Stone Scurf. Parmelia saxatilis Ach. — General in Clare Island 

 as the name of this lichen, which is still used there to give a yellow 

 dye of better quality than peicoj Uac, which is also used for the same 

 purpose. In the Carna district, Galway, the name Sqi<s ctoc is given to 

 another Lichen, Bamalina scopulorum Ach., there also used as a yellow 

 dye (Brown, " Ethnography of Carna and Mweenish," E.I.A. Proa, 3rd Ser., 

 vol. ii., p. 523). See ^eirdj; l^c. 



SelLifqunj. Iris Pseud-Acorus Linne, Yellow Iris, Flag. — General in Clare 

 Island, and on the mainland shores of the bay, as at Boonah, Murrisk, 

 Belclare, and Mulranny. Perhaps no Gaelic plant-name is so widely 

 spread or suffers so many dialectic changes as this does. In Kerry it 

 appears as llli^-quiiii, Seli]"qmm, or T)ite&]-qiinii ; in Louth (Omeath) it 

 becomes SoUvrqumi. Threlkeld gives Sill,i]*c&]», Wade the digammated 

 form peaX&]'c^\ and pe^lAfqumi, and it turns up in Cornwall in the 

 contracted form Laister. The root is used in Clare Island to produce a 

 black dj-e. 



SeU,i]'qur>5 wild, The Wild Shellistring. Sparganium, ramosvm Hudson, 

 Bur-reed. — Clare Island. In the Clew Bay area it is customary to 

 distinguish plants or animals of uncommon size and vigour by the 

 adjective " wild." The Bur-reed, resembling a very luxuriant and lofty 

 SelXif qung (Yellow Iris), was so distinguished for me by an old resident 

 of the island. 



