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the vine. "The cloudberry is the most grateful fruit gathered 

 by the Scotch Highlanders" (Neill). 

 The badge of Clan Macfarlane. 



Criiban na saona, "the dwarf mountain bramble." (O'Reilly, 

 Armstrong, and others). Probably this is another name for the 

 cloudberry, but its peculiar and untranslatable name furnishes no 

 certain clue to what plant it was formerly applied. 



R. saxatilis — Stone bramble. Gaelic: caora bad miann, the 

 berry of the desirable cluster. Ruiteaga, redness, a slight tinge 

 of red. Soo na man meen (Threl). Subh na mban-mtn 

 (O'Reilly). The gentlewomen's berry. This bramble is pretty 

 common in the Highlands and in Ireland, ascending the Gram- 

 pians aud other mountains to the height of 2700 feet. The fruit 

 is more scarlet and rounder than that of the common blackberry 

 (fruticosus), and it grows generally in stony places. 



R. idaeus — Raspberry. Gaelic : preas subk chraobh (craobh, a 

 tree, a sprout, a bud), the bush with sappy sprouts. 



" Faile nan siibh-craobh is nan rosan." — Macintyre. 

 The odour of rasps and roses. 



Welsh: mafon — maf, what is clustering. Gaelic: preas shuidheag, 

 the sappy bush. Siighag, the fruit (from siigh, juice, sap). 



R. fruticosus — Common bramble. Irish and Gaelic: dreas, 

 plural, dris. Welsh: dyrys — the root rys, entangle, with prefix 

 dy, force, irritation. In Gaelic and Welsh the words dris and 

 drysien are applied to the bramble and briar indiscriminately. 



" An dreas a' fas gu h-urar." — Ossian. 

 The bramble (or briar) freshly growing. 



"Am fear theid san droighionn domh 

 Theid mi 'san dris da." — Proverb. 



If one pass through thorns for me, 



I'll pass through brambles (or briars) for him. 



Grian mhuine, the thorn (bush) that basks in the sun. Dris 

 muine — muine, a thorn, prickle, sting. Smear phreas (Irish: 

 smeur), the bush that smears; smearag, that which smears (the 

 fruit). Welsh : miar, the bramble. Manx : drine smeyr. (Miar 

 or meur in Gaelic means a finger.) Smearachd, fingering, greasing, 

 smearing. (Compare Dutch smeeren ; German, schmieren, to 



