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the devil, envying the benefits this plant might confer on man- 

 kind, bit away a part of the root, hence the name. Manx: lus- 

 yn-aacheoid (Ralfe) was reckoned a preservative against the evil 

 eye. Welsh: y glafrllys, from clqfr, clawr, scab, mange, itch; 

 translation of scabiosa, from scabies, the itch, which disorder it is 

 said to cure. 



Knautia arvensis — Corn-field knautia (so named in honour 

 of C. Knaut, a German botanist) or field scabious. Gaelic: gille 

 guirmein, the blue lad. Irish : caba deasain, the elegant cap ; 

 caba, a cap or hood) and deas, neat, pretty, elegant. Bodach 

 gorm, the blue old man. 



Composite. 



Helmiuthia echioides — Ox-tongue. Gaelic : bog/us (Arm- 

 strong), a corruption from the Irish ; bolglus, ox-weed, from bolg, 

 a cow, an ox. A name also given to Lycopsis arvensis. Bog 

 luibh, same meaning. (Bog and bolg axe often interchanged.) 



Lactuca sativa — Lettuce. Gaelic and Irish: liatus, lettuce, 

 a corruption from lactuca (Latin, lac, milk), on account of the 

 milky sap which flows copiously when the plant is cut ; luibh 

 inite, the eatable plant. Irish: billeog math, the good leaf. 

 Welsh: gwylath, gwy fluid, lacth, milk. 



L. muralis — Bliutsan (Threl) wall lettuce, from bligh, milk, 

 from the milky juice of the plant. Very rare in the Highlands. 

 A plant somewhat resembling dandelion. 



Sonchus oleraceus — Common sow-thistle, milk-thistle. Gaelic 

 and Irish • bog ghioghan, the soft thistle. Irish giogan, a thistle. 

 Fofannan min, soft thistle. Baine muic, sow's milk. Manx: 

 Bainney muck. Cluaran cruidh, cow's thistle (O'Reilly). 



S. arvensis — Gaelic : bliochd fochainn, the corn milk-plant ; bliochd, 

 milky ; fochann, young corn. Welsh : llaeth ysgallen, milk-thistle 

 (jsgallen, a thistle). 



Hieracium pilosella — Mouse-ear hawkweed. Gaelic: cluas 

 luch, mouse-ear ; cluas liath, the grey ear. 



H. murorum — Wall hawkweed. Irish : sruthan-na-muc (O'Reilly). 



Taraxacum dens leonis — Dandelion. Gaelic : bearnan Bride. 



"Am bearnan Bride J s a' pheighinn rloghail." — M'Intyrb. 

 The dandelion and the penny-royal. 



Beam, a notch, from its notched leaf ; "Bride, from its being in 



