flowers. Keora con (Threl), dog-nut. Caoir chon, dog berries.. 

 A shrubby tree growing in copses or waterside; with a flower 

 from two to four inches in diameter, with large white florets round 

 its circumference. The fruit nearly round, and red. Not com- 

 mon in the Highlands, but frequently met with in Ireland. 



V. lantana — Wayfaring tree. Gaelic: craobh fhiadhain (Arm- 

 strong), the wild or uncultivated tree. 



Lonicera periclymenum — Woodbine, honeysuckle. Gaelic: 

 ■uilleann, seems to be derived from uileann (elbows, arms, 

 joints), elbow-like plant Taithiiilleann (O'Reilly), our Gaelic 

 name Uilleann, and taith, bright, pleasing. Feith, feithlean. 

 Irish : feathlog, feathlog fu chrann, fethlen, from feith, a 

 sinew, tendon, suggested by its twisting, sinewy stems. Lus 

 na meala, the honey-plant, from mil (Greek: /ieAi; Latin : 

 met), honey. Deolag, or deoghalag, from deothail, to such. Irish : 

 cas fa chrann, 1 that which twists round the tree. Bainne- 

 ghamhnaich (O'Reilly), the yearling's milk. A somewhat satirical 

 name, implying that the sucking will produce scanty results. In 

 the Highlands this name is generally given to the red rattle 

 (fedicularis). In Gaelic iadh shlat is frequently applied both to- 

 this plant and to the ivy (see Hedera helix). Welsh : gwyddfid, 

 tree-climber or hedge-climber. Manx : lus-y-chellan, bee herb. 

 It was supposed, though mistakenly, that bees could reach the 

 honey. It was considered "Mie dy reayll bainney veih rannagh, 

 as yn eeym veih dooid" (Kelly's Dictionary). " Good to keep 

 milk from stringiness and butter from blackness." Lus a chraois,. 

 sometimes, but improperly. (See Cornus Suecica). 



RUBIACE^E. 



Rubia tinctorum — Madder. Gaelic: madar (Armstrong). 



Galium aparine — Goose-grass ; cleavers. Gaelic : garbh lus- r 

 the rough weed. Irish: airmeirg, from airm, arms, weapons, 

 from its stem being so profusely armed with retrograde prickles^ 

 Manx: lus garroo. 



Ct. saxatile (Armstrong) —Heath bedstraw. Madar fraoich r 



' In Strathardle and many other districts, leum-a-chrann (hum, jump,. 

 crann, a tree), alluding to its jumping or spreading from tree to tree. High. 

 Soc. Diet, gives duilliur-ftithlean, probably from its darkening whatever' 

 grew under it." — Ferguson. 



