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sklat, the twig that surrounds — a name likewise given to the 

 honeysuckle (lonicera periclymenum), because it twines like the 



ivy — 



" Mar iadh-shlat ri stoc aosda." 

 Like an ivy to an old trunk. 



An gath, a spear, a dart. 



The badge of the Clan Gordon. 



CORNACEiE. 



Cornus (from Latin: cornu, a horn). Gaelic : corn. French : 

 .come. "The wood being thought to be hard and durable as 

 horn." 



Cornus sanguinea — Dogwood, cornel-tree. Gaelic: coin-bhil, 

 ■dogwood; conbhaiscne, dog-tree (baiscne, Irish, a tree). Irish: 

 .crann coirnel, cornel-tree. 



C. suecica — Dwarf cornel — literally, Swedish cornel. Gaelic 

 .and Irish : lus-a-chraois, plant of gluttony (craos, a wide mouth ; 

 gluttony, appetite). "The berries have a sweet, waterish taste, 

 and are supposed by the Highlanders to create a great appetite — 

 whence the Erse name of the plant " (Stuart of Killin). " It is 

 reported to have tonic berries, which increase the appetite, whence 

 its Highland name " (Lindley). 



Umbellifer^. 

 Hydrocotyle vulgaris — Marsh pennywort. Gaelic : his na 

 peighinn, the pennywort. Irish : lus na pinghine (O'Reilly), from 

 the resemblance of its peltate leaf to a peighinn — a Scotch penny, 

 or the fourth part of a shilling sterling. Manx : ouw. 



" Cha nee tra ta'n cheyrrey gee yn ouw te cheet r'ee. " — Proverb. 

 Time enough for the sheep to eat pennywort when it comes to her. 



This plant is said to be injurious to sheep. Welsh: toddaidd 

 wen, white rot. 



Eryngium marititnum — Sea-holly. Gaelic and Irish: cuilionn 

 tragha, sea-shore holly. (See Ilex aquifolium). Welsh : y mbr 

 _gelyn, sea-holly (celynen, holly). Manx: hollyn hraie, sea-shore 

 holly. 



Sanicula europaea — Wood sanicle. Gaelic : bodan coille, wood- 

 tail. Bodan, diminutive of bod (membrum virile), and coille of 

 the wood. Irish : caogma. Buine, an ulcer — a noted herb, " to 



