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A graveolens — Smallage, wild celery. Gaelic : lus na smalaig T 

 a corruption of smallage. Pearsal mhbr, the large parsley. Irish : 

 meirse. Anglo-Saxon : merse, a lake, sea. Latin : mare — marshy- 

 ground being its habitat. Welsh : persli Frengig, French parsley. 



Petroselinum sativum — Parsley. Gaelic: pearsal (corruption* 

 from the Greek ircrpa, petra, a rock, and vikivov, selinon, parsley). 

 Muinean Mhuire, Mary's sprouts. Welsh : persli. Fionnas- 

 garaidh (Macleod and Dewar). 



Heliosciadium irmndatum — Marsh wort. Gaelic : fualaciar (from 

 fual, water). The plant grows in ditches, among water. 



Carum carui — Caraway. Scotch : carvie ; Gaelic : carbhaidk 

 (a corruption from the generic name), from Caria, in Asia Minor,, 

 because it was originally found there — also written carbhinn. 

 " Cathair thalmhanta's carbhinn chroc-cheannach." — Macintyre. 

 The yarrow and the horny-headed caraway. 



Lus Mhic Cuimein, MacCumin's wort. The name is derived from' 

 the Arabic gamoun, the seeds of the plant Cuminum cyminum 

 (cumin), which are used like those of caraway. 



The badge of the Cumins. 



Bunium flexuosum — The earth-nut. Gaelic : braonan bhuachaill, 

 the shepherd's drop (or nut) ; braonan bachlaig (Shaw) ; cna- 

 thalmhuinn — cno, a nut ; thalmhuinn, earth — ploughed land, 

 ground. Latin : tellus. Sanscrit : talas, level ground. Irish r 

 caor thalmhuinn, earth berry; coirearan muic, pig- berries, or pig- 

 nuts. Cutharlan, a plant with a bulbous root. Cbrlan. Manx : 

 Curlan. Croa hallooin, earth nut. 



Fceniculum vulgare — Fennel. Gaelic : lus an t-saoidh, the 

 hayweed. Fineal, from Latin, fxnum, hay, the smell of the 

 plant resembling that of hay. Irish : fineal chumhthra (cumhra y 

 sweet, fragrant). Welsh : ffenigl. 



Ligusticum, from Liguria, where one species is common. 



L. scoticum — Lovage. Gaelic : siunas, from sion, a. blast, a 

 storm — growing in exposed situations. In the Western Isles, 

 where it is frequent on the rocks at the sea-side, it is sometimes, 

 eaten raw as a salad, or boiled as greens. 



Leivsticum officinale — Common lovage. Gaelic: luibh an liugair, 

 the cajoler's weed. It was supposed to soothe patients subject to- 

 hysterics and other complaints. Irish : lus an liagaire, the- 



