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gharg fraoch" (Ull.)» a hero of the fiercest wrath. "Fraoch/" 

 fury, the war-cry of the M'Donalds. Old Irish : fraich. The 

 Badge of Conn of a hundred fights. 



" Leathaid folt fada fraich, 

 Forbrid canach fann finn."— Finn MacCumhail. 

 Spreads heath its long hair, flourishes the feeble fair cotton grass. 



E. vagans. — Cornish heath. Celtic: gooneleg (Dr. Hooker), 

 the bee's resort. 



E. cinerea. — Smooth-leaved heath. Gaelic : fraoch d bhadain, 

 the tufted heath. Dlitth fraoch— {Logan)— Our Gaelic word 

 dluth, close. The leaves are finer than in the other species It 

 is in its glory in July. Its dark purple is very conspicuous in 

 that month. 



" Barr an fhraoch bhadanaich." — Old Song. 

 The top of the tufted heath. 

 " Gur badanach, caoineil, mileanta, 

 Cruinn mopach, min cruth, mongonnach, 

 Fraoch groganach, du-dhonn gris dearg." — M'lNTYRE. 



Literally — 



That heath so tufty, mellow, sweet-lipped, 

 Round, moppy, delicate, ruddy, 

 Stumpy, brown, and purple. 



Fraoch an dearrasain, the heath that makes a rustling or buzzing 

 sound. Fraoch spreadanach, 'crackling heather. 



The badge of Clan Donnachaidh or Robertson. 



E. Hibernica — Am Fraoch Eirionnach — (Canon Bourke) (Hooker) 

 — The Irish heath. The name is distinctive — not found in Great 

 Britain, but in Ireland in bog heaths in Mayo and Galway, also on 

 the Mediterranean shores. The Irish natives delight to sell bunches 

 of it to travellers. 



y* Dabeocia polifolia — Fraoch Dhaboch — (Canon Bourke, Don, and 

 others). St. Dabeoc's heath. Many of our Gaelic names are 

 those of saints — St. Patrick, St. Columba, St. Bennett, St. 

 Bridget, &c. Native of the West of Ireland, on Craig Phadraigh 

 and other places, but not in Scotland or England. A shrub of 

 about one to two feet in height. 



Calluna vulgaris.— Ling heather. Gaelic and Irisfi : fraoch. 

 Manx: Freogh. Heath or heather is still applied to many im- 

 portant domestic purposes, thatching houses, &c, and "the hardy 

 Highlanders frequently make their beds with it — the roots down 



