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toad. Plosgat (O'Reilly). It was used to soothe throbbing pains- 

 {plosg, to throb). 



C. leucanthenmm — Ox-eye. Gaelic: an nebinein mbr, the big 

 daisy. Am breinean-brothach {breine, stench ; brothach, scabby). 



Ox-eye daisy, called in the Gaelic " Breinean brothach." Brein- 

 ean or brainean also means a king; Welsh, brenhin. The word* 1 

 is now obsolete in the Highlands. Easbuig-ban and easbadh' 

 brothach (the King's-evil). This plant was esteemed an excellent 

 remedy for that complaint. Irish : easbuig Speain (Speain or 

 Easbain, Spain). 



Anthemis nobilis — Common chamomile. Camomhil, from the 

 Greek \a.fiai firjkov, which Pliny informs us was applied to the 

 plant on account of its smelling like apples. (Spanish : mammilla, 

 a little apple). Lus-nan-cam-bhil (Mackenzie), the plant with 

 drooping leaves. A corruption from the Greek. 



' ' Bi'dh miormtain camomhil 's sobhraichean 

 Geur bhlleach, Ionach, luasganach." — Macintyre. 

 There will be mints, chamomile, and primroses, 

 Sharp-leaved, pratling, restless. 



Luibhleighis, the healing plant. This plant is held in consider- 

 able repute, both in the popular and scientific Materia Medica. 



A. pyrethrum — Pellitory of Spain. Gaelic: lus na Spaine, 

 the Spanish weed. 



A. cotula — Sinell (Threl), stinking May-weed. Probably sine,- 

 a teat ; and amhuil, like. The teat-like appearance of its com- 

 posite flower is very striking; it and others of the chamomile 

 tribe were popular cures for swellings and inflammations. Rare 

 in the Highlands, it is frequent in the South and in Ireland. 



A. arvensis — Field chamomile. Irish : coman mionla [coman, a 

 common ; mionla, fine-f oliaged. Gaelic : m\n lach). 



Matricaria iodora — Scentless May-weed. Gaelic : buidheag an 

 arbhair, the corn daisy. Camomhil fhiadhain, wild chamomile. 



M. partheirium — Meadh duach (O'Reilly), fever few; meadh 

 drush (Threl). Decoctions of these plants mixed with honey 

 were formerly in use as cures for fevers and diseases of the 

 uterus, and other unmentionable complaints. 



Tanacetum vulgare — Tansy. Gaelic : lus na Fraing, the 

 French weed. (French, tanaisie.) Irish: tamhsae, corruptions- 

 from Athanasia. Greek: a, privative, and davaros, death, /.«.„ 



