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-a cooler, and to bring on suppurations" (Lightfoot). Grunnasg 

 (from grunnd, ground; German: grund). Welsh : grunsel. Manx: 

 jp-unlus. 



'•Muran brighor 's an grunnasg lionmhor. " — Macintyre. 

 The sappy carrot and the plentiful groundsel. 



Irish : crann lus, the plough-weed. Buafanan na h-easgaran 

 ■(buaf, a toad, a serpent, but in this name evidently a corruption 

 from bualan, a remedy, or buaidh, to overcome; easgaran, the 

 plague), a remedy for the plague. A name given also to the 

 ragwort. 



S. palludocis — O'Reilly gives the name Boglus, but he is 

 wrong; the name does not apply. It is almost extinct now, but 

 sometimes found in the Fen counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, 

 &c. For Boglus, see " Lycopsis." 



S. Jacobsea — Ragwort. Gaelic and Irish : buadhlan buidhe 

 {from buadh, to overcome; buidhe, yellow); buadhghallan, the 

 stripling or branch that overcomes ; guiseag bhuidhe, or cuiseag, 

 the yellow-stalked plant ; cuiseag, a stalk. Manx : cushag. 



Prov. — " Ta airh er cushagynn ayns shen." 

 There is gold on the ragwort there — 

 alluding to its profusion of yellow flowers. 



Inula Helenium — Elecampane, said to be from the officinal 



name, inula campana, but probably a corruption of Hel^nula, 



Little Helen (Jones). Greek : eAevos, the elecampane. Gaelic : 



•aillean sometimes uilleann. Irish: Ellea (Gaelic, Eilidh), Helen, 



Welsh : Helenium. The famous Helen of Troy, who is said 



to have availed herself of the cosmetic properties of the plant. 



Creamh, sometimes, but more generally applied to Allium ursinum 



•(which see). The Elecampane is an aromatic plant, with large 



■downy leaves something like a docken leaf (copag). Its roots 



•contain a white starchy powder called Inuline, from which medi- 



-cines were extracted for the cure of dyspepsia and lung affections. 



It furnishes the Vin d' Aulnde of the French. It is still frequently 



met with in cottage gardens. 



Bellis perennis — Daisy. Gaelic and Irish : nebinean or nbinean, 

 the noon-flower (from nbin, noon ; Welsh : nawn ; Latin : nona, 

 the ninth hour, from novem, ninth. The ninth hour, or three in 



