ing "the Devil's horn.'' So called from the form of its pods. 

 The flowers are yellow, and often streaked with red. Common 

 in pastures, and ascending the mountains to the height of 2800 

 feet. 



Anthyllis vulneraria — Kidney vetch, or Lady's Fingers. 

 Gaelic : mebir Mhuire, Mary's fingers ; cas an uain, lamb's foot. 



Vicia 1 sativa — Vetch. Gaelic and Irish : fiatghal, nuitritious 

 (from Irish fiadh, now written biadh, food); peasair fhiadhain, 

 wild peas ; peasair chapull, mare's peas. Welsh : idbys, edible 

 peas. Irish: pis fhiadhain, wild peas ;pis dubh, black peas. Siorr. 



V. cracca — Tufted vetch. Gaelic: peasair nan luch, mice 

 peas ; pesair (Latin, pisum; Welsh, pys; French, pots, peas), are 

 all from the Celtic root, pis, a pea ; ajso peasair radan, rat pease. 



V. sepium — Bush vetch. Gaelic : peasair nam preas, the bush 

 peas. 



Lathyrus pratensis — Yellow vetchling. Gaelic : peasair 

 bhuidhe, yellow peas. Irish: pis bhuidhe, yellow peas. 



Ervum hirsutum — Hairy vetch or tare (from erv, Celtic — arv, 

 Latin, tilled land). Gaelic: peasair an arbhair, corn peas. Welsh: 

 pysen y ceirch — ceirch, oats. Gaelic : gall pheasair, a name for 

 lentils or vetch. Gall, sometimes prefixed to names of plants 

 having lowland habitats, or strangers. 



" Lan do ghall pheasair." — 2 Sam., Stuart. 

 Full of lentils. 



Faba vulgaris — Bean. Gaelic : pbnair. Irish : pbnaire. Cor- 

 nish: pbnar (from the German pdna, a bean. Gaelic: 

 pbnair Fhrangach, French beans ; pbnair airneach, kidney beans ; 

 pbnair chapull, buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata). Seib (O'Dono- 

 van) (Faba) — Bean. Manx : poanrey. 



" Gabh thugad fos cruithneachd agus eorna, agus pbnair, agus peasair, 

 agus meanbh-pheasair, agus peasair fhiadhain, agus cuir iad ann an aon 

 soitheach, agus dean duit fein aran duibh." — Stuart, Ezekiel iv. 9. 



" Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and 

 millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof." 



Orobus tuberosus — Tuberous bitter vetch (from Greek opu>, 

 oro, to excite, to strengthen, and ftovs, an ox). Gaelic and Irish : 



1 Vicia (from Greek pmiov, Latin vicia, French vesce, English vetch). 

 — Loudon. 



