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B. campestris — Wild navew. Gaelic: neup fhiadhain, wild 

 turnip. 



B. oleracea — Sea-kale or cabbage. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 

 bhaidhe, the pot-herb of the wave (baidhe, in Irish, a wave). 

 Morran — mor (Welsh), the sea, its habitat the seaside. Chi 

 tolbhairt — the kale with stout fleshy stalks (from colbh, a stalk of 

 a plant, and art, flesh), cal ox cadhal. Welsh: caw/, kale. Gaelic: 

 cal-cear slack (cear slack, globular), cabbage; cal gruidhean (with 

 grain like flowers), cauliflower; colag (a little cabbage), cauliflower; 

 garadh cail, a kitchen garden. Rotheach tragha (O'Reilly). 

 " 'Dh 'itheadh biolair an fhuarain 

 'S air bu shuarach an chl." — Macdonald. 

 That would eat the cress of the wells, 

 And consider kale contemptible. 



Sinapis arvensis — Charlock, wild mustard. Gaelic: marag 

 bhuidhe or amharag, from amh, raw or pungent. Sceallan — sceall, 

 a shield. Sgealag (Shaw) — sgealpach, biting. Mustard— -from the 



English. 



" Mar ghrkinne de shlol mustaird." — Stuart. 

 Like a grain of mustard-seed. 



The mustard of Scripture, " Salvadora persica," was a tree twenty 

 feet high, therefore it could not be our mustard. Cas or Gas- 

 na conachta (O'Reilly). Cas an thunnagta (Threl). Gaelic: 

 praiseach garbh, the rough pot-herb. 



Subularia aquatica — Ruideog is given by O' Donovan "as 

 bogawl, a kind of butterweed growing in bogs (County of 

 Monaghan)." Awl wort. May possibly be from the old Irish 

 name ruit, a dart or short spear. 4 It is a small plant found in 

 shallow edges of alpine ponds and lakes. It rarely exceeds two 

 or three inches in height, leaves cylindrical, slender, and pointed 

 like little awls, hence the name awl wort. 



RESEDACE^. 



Beseda luteola— Weld, yellow weed. Gaelic : lus buidhe mbr, 

 the large yellow weed. Irish: buidhe mbr, the large yellow. 

 Welsh : llysie lliu, dye-wort. Reseda, from Latin resedo. 



CISTACEjE. 



(From Greek /a'cn-17, kiste, a box or capsule, from .their peculiar 

 -capsules. Latin: cista Gaelic: ciste. Danish: kiste.) 



