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a lake, a pool, pool-weed or lake-weed, being a water-plant. 

 Lothal (lo, water). Irish : Lochal mothair; Irish : biolair Mhuire, 

 Mary's cress. Welsh : llychlys y dwfr, squatter in the" water. 



V. officinale — Common speedwell. Gaelic and Irish : lus ere, 

 the dust weed. Seamar chrk (see Oxalis) 



V. anagallis — Water-speedwell. Irish : fualachter, fual, water, 

 the one that grows in the water. 



V. chamcedrys — Noulough (Threl), nuallach (O'Reilly), geri- 

 mander speedwell. 



A small trailing plant, growing almost everywhere, and ascend- 

 ing the mountains to the height of 2700 feet. The flower is 

 bright blue, scarcely half an inch in diameter, and small hairy 

 hearts-haped leaves, deeply toothed. This plant was used medi- 

 cinally on account of its acrid, bitterish taste, causing stomachic 

 pains Nuall a howling cry, may have originated the names. 



Euphrasia officinalis — Eyebright. Gaelic: lus nan leac, the 

 hillside plant ; leac, a declivity. Soillseachd nan sill, soillse nan 

 sul (M'Donald), that which brightens the eye. Rein an ruisg 

 (Stuart), water for the eye. Glan ruis, the eye-cleaner. Lightfoot 

 mentions that the Highlanders of Scotland make an infusion of 

 it in milk, and anoint the patient's eyes with a feather dipped in 

 it, as a cure for sore eyes. Irish : radharcain (radkairc), sense 

 of sight. Lin radharc (lin, the eye, wet), the eye-wetter or washer. ' 

 Raeimin-radhairc (reim, power, authority), that which has power 

 over the sight. Roisnin, rosg, the eye, eyesight. Caoimin 

 (caoimh), clean. Manx : lus y tooill. Welsh : gloywlys, the 

 bright plant. 'Llysieuyn eufras, the herb Euphrasia (from 

 ev<f>paiva], euphraino, to delight, from the supposition of the plant 

 curing blindness). Arnoldus de Villa saith, " It has restored 

 sight to them that have been blind a long time before ; and if it 

 were but as much used as it is neglected, it would half spoil the 

 spectacle trade " (Culpepper). 



Pedicularis sylvatica — Dwarf red rattle. Irish : lusan grolla. 



P. palustris — Louse- wort ; red rattle. Gaelic : lus riabhach, 

 the brindled plant, possibly a contraction of riabhdheargach (Irish), 

 red-streaked, a name which well describes the appearance of the 

 plant. Modhalan dearg, the red modest one. Lus na mial, 

 louse-wort, from the supposition that sheep that feed upon it 



