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or bitter berry. Manx: Farrane. The fruit abounds with an 

 acid juice ; when the ripe fruit is eaten, it occasions headache 

 and giddiness. 



Blainsneog — This name is in O'Donovan's Supplement as the 

 "Bogberry" in Donegal. The Irish name means small flowered, 

 Math, bloom, and sneidhe, small. Criiibin, the cranberry— {Ed. 

 Gaelic Journal. See Lotus). 



The badge of Clan Buchanan. 



Ileace^e. 



Ilex aquifolium — Holly. Gaelic : cuilionn, and Irish, cuilenn. 

 Welsh: celyn. A.-S. : holegn. (C in Gaelic corresponds with H ir> 

 the Germanic languages.) The leaves of this tree are very 

 prickly, and thus guard against cattle eating the young shoots. 

 Welsh: celyn, tree, shelterer or protector; eel, conceal, shelter, 

 cover. 



" Ma theid thu ruisgte troimh thom droighinn 

 'S coiseachd cas-lom air preas cuilinn 

 Cadal gun lein' air an eanntaig, 

 'S racadal itheadh gun draing ort," &c. — Blar Shunadail. 



If you po naked through a thorn thicket, 

 And walk barefooted on the holly, 

 Sleep without a shirt on the nettle, 

 And eat horse-radish without a grin, &c. 



The badge of Clan Macmillan. 



Oleace^e. 

 Diospyros ebenus— Allied to the Holly and the Olive is the 

 Ebony tree mentioned in Ezekiel xxvii. 15. " Thug iad a d'ionns- 

 uidh mar thiodhlac, adharca deud-chramh, agus eboni." It is 

 remarkable for its hardness and black colour. Dubh-fhiodh,, 

 Black wood. Heb. : eben, a stone. 



Olea europsea — European olive. Gaelic and Irish : crann 

 oladh or ola (Greek : kXala, a word according to Du Thdis. 

 derived from the Celtic ; Welsh : oleu), the oil-tree. Sgolog 

 (O'Reilly). 



" Sgaoilidh e gheugan agus bithidh a mhaise mar an crann-oladh." 

 " He will spread his branches, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree." — 

 Hoska, xiv. 6. 



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