PAPAVERACEjE. 



Papaver rhoeas — Poppy. Gaelic : meilbheag, sometimes beilbheag, 

 a little pestle (to which the capsule has some resemblance). 



"Le meilbheag, le neoinean, 's le slan-lus." — Macleod. 

 With a poppy, daisy, and rib-grass. 



Jothros, corn-rose — from ioth (Irish), corn; rbs, rose. Cromlus, 

 bent weed. Paipean ruadh — ruadh, red; and paipean a corruption 

 •of papaver, from papa, pap, or pappo, to eat of pap. The juice 

 was formerly put into children's food to make them sleep. Welsh : 

 pabi. Irish: blath nam bodaigh, old men's flower. Cathleach- 

 .dearg (O'Reilly). Cochcifoide (Shaw). Corn poppy. Welsh : 

 Jlygad y cythraul, the devil's eye. Cathleach may perhaps be 

 ■connected with cathlunn corn and dearg red, but Shaw's name is 

 .altogether dubious and meaningless. 



P. somniferuiri — Common opium poppy. Gaelic: codalian, 

 from codal or cadal, sleep. Collaidin ban, white poppy. 



P. nigram sativum — Paipean dubh, black poppy. Manx: 

 Jus y chadlee, the plant for sleep. 



Chelidonium majus — Common celandine (a corruption of 

 XeAiSwu, chelidon, a swallow). Gaelic: an ceann ruadh, the red 

 head. The flower is yellow, not red. Irish: lacha cheann ruadh, 

 the red-headed duck. Welsh : llysie y wennol, swallow-wort. 

 Aonsgoch is another Gaelic name for swallow-wort, meaning 

 swallow-flower — aon, a swallow; and sgoth, a flower. Scotch 

 ■Gaelic name for a swallow, ainlag. Manx : /us y ghollan gheayee, 

 swallow herb, formerly used by herbalists as a cure for cancer. 



Glaucium luteum — Yellow horned poppy. Gaelic: barrag 

 ruadh (?), the valiant or strong head. The flower is yellow, not 

 red. 



FUMARIACEjE. 



.(From fumus, smoke. "The smoke of these plants being said 

 by the ancient exorcists to have the power of expelling evil 

 spirits" (Jones) French: fume terre. 



Fumaria officinalis — Fumitory. Gaelic : lus deathach thalmhuinn 

 ■(Armstrong), the earth-smoke plant. Irish: deatach thalmhuinn 

 •(O'Reilly), earth-smoke. Welsh: mwg y ddaer, earth-smoke. The 

 .allusion being to the disagreeable smell of the plant when burning. 

 Another Irish name is caman scarraigh (O'Reilly) — caman, crooked, 



