antiscorbutic properties. "Plaigh na carra," the plague of leprosy 

 (Stuart). "Duine aig am bheil carr," a man who has the scurvy 

 (Stuart in Lev.) Manx: lus-y-vinniag, pinch herb. Kelly explains 

 "minniag" or "minniag merrin" as that lividity called dead men's 

 nips or pinches, which is no more than the symptoms of scurvy. 

 Welsh: mor Iwyau, sea-spoons; llysie'r blwg, scurvy-grass (from 

 blwg, scurvy). Irish: biolair tragha — bio/air, dainty; and tragha, 

 shore or sea-shore. It grows also on mountain tops. 



Armoracia rusticana ( Armoracia, a name of Celtic origin, "from 

 ar, land; mor or mar, the sea; ris, near to)." This derivation is 

 doubtful. English : horse-radish. Gaelic : meacan each, the horse- 

 plant. Irish: racadal, perhaps the same as rotocal. Scotch: 

 rotcoll (Macbain). 



Raphanus raphanistrum — Radish. Gaelic : meacan ruadh, the 

 reddish plant, from the colour of the root. Irish : fiadh roidis, 

 wild radish. Raidis (Armstrong). Curran dhearg (O'Reilly), the 

 red root. 



R. maritimus — Sea radish. Irish : meacan ragum usee (O'Reilly). 

 Raibhe — radish, from Latin raphanus. 



Cardamine pratensis — Cuckoo flower, ladies' smock. Gaelic: 

 plur na cubhaig, the cuckoo-flower. Gleoran, from gleote, hand- 

 some, pretty. The name is given to other cresses as well. Biolair- 

 ghriagain, the bright sunny dainty. 



Cakile maritimum — Sea gill y-flower rocket. Gaelic : fearsaid- 

 eag; meaning uncertain, but probably from Irish saide, a seat 

 (Latin, sedes), the sitting individual — from its procumbent habit. 

 Gearr bochdan. 



Nasturtium officinalis — Water-cress. Gaelic : biolair, a dainty, 

 or that which causes the nose to smart, hence agreeing with 

 nasturtium, (Latin : nasus, the nose, and tortus, tormented. Durlus 

 ■ — dur, water, and lus, plant. Dobhar-lus — dobhar, water. Welsh : 

 berwyr dwfr, water-cress. The Gaelic and Irish bards used these 

 names indefinitely for all cresses. 



" 'S a bhiolair luidneach, shliom-chluasach. 

 Glas, chruinn-cheannach, chaoin ghorm-neulach ; 

 Is i fas glan, uchd-ard, gilmeineach, 

 Fuidh barr geal iomlan, sonraichte. " — Macintyre. 



