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Maslike, "the gum of the tree called in Latin lentiscus" so called 

 because used for chewing in the East. The leaves, bark, fruit, 

 and gum were known medicinally in Great Britain and Ireland 

 long ago. 



P. terebinthus — Turpentine tree. Cuilionn. The Teil tree of 

 the Bible (Isaiah vi. 13), rendered cuilionn in the Gaelic version.. 



" Agus pillidh e, agus caitheare mar an cuilionn agus an darach." 

 And it shall return, and shall be used as a teil tree and an oak. 



Myrtace^e. 

 Punica granatum — Pomegranate. Gaelic : gran ubhal (gran,. 

 Latin, granum, grain-apple. 



" Tha do gheuga mar X\o% gran ubhlan, leis a'mheas a's taitniche." — Song 

 of Solomon. 



Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits. 

 (Now generally written pomgranat in recent editions.) 



Myrtus communis — Myrtle. Gaelic: miortal. 

 "An ait droighne fasaidh an giuthas, agus an ait drise fasaidh am miortal." 

 — Isaiah lv. 13. 



Instead of the thorn shall grow the fir, and instead of the briar the myrtle. 



Onagrace^e. 

 Epilobium montanum — Mountain willow-herb. Gaelic : an 

 seileachan, diminutive of seileach (Latin: salix, a willow), from 

 the resemblance of its leaves to the willow. AVelsh : helyglys,. 

 same meaning. Manx : lus ny shellee, willow herb. 



"In Glenlyon the epilobium was, as elsewhere, often called "an seileachan," 

 yet the older name " helig '' or " elig " was retained, and one of the rocky hills 

 of the Glen is called Craig helig or Craig-elig from the plant." — Inverness 

 Chronicle. 



E. aDgustifolium — Rosebay. Gaelic : seileachan Frangacli r 

 French willow. Feainainn (in Breadalbane), a common name for 

 plants growing near water, especially if they have long stalks. 



Circsea lutetiana and alpina — Enchantress's nightshade. Gaelic 

 and Irish : fuinnseach. Not improbably from Irish uinnseach, 

 playing the wanton— the reference being to the fruit, which lays 

 hold of the clothes of passengers, from being covered with hooked 

 prickles (as Circe is fabled to have done with her enchantments) ; 

 or fuinn, a veil, a covering. The genus grows in shady places, 

 where shrubs fit for incantations may be found. " Fuinn (a word 



