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become covered with vermin. Bainne ghabhar, goat's milk, 

 from the idea that when goats feed on it they yield more milk. 

 Its beautiful pink flowers were used as a cosmetic. 



" Sail-chuach 's bainne ghabhar, 

 'Shuadh ri t-aghaidh, 

 'S cha 'n 'eil mac righ air an domhain, 

 Nach bi air do dhe'idh." 



Rub thy face with violet, and goat's milk, 

 And there is no prince in the world 

 Who will not follow thee. 



Milsean monah (Threl). Baine ghamhnach is given for the 

 honeysuckle in Ireland, whereas in the Highlands it is often 

 applied to the red rattle. 



Rhinanthus crista galli — The yellow rattle. Gaelic : modh- 

 alan bhuidhe, the yellow modest one. Bodach nan claigionn, 

 or (Irish) doigionn, a skull, from the skull-like appearance of its 

 inflated calyces. Glaodhran, given in the dictionaries for this 

 plant, also for wood sorrel, meaning a rattle. 



Antirhinum orontium — Snapdragon, Sriumh na laogh (Threl), 

 meaning calf's snout. Known only in Scotland in gardens, but 

 not uncommonly met with in the south of England, but rare in 

 Ireland as a wild flower. In fact, it is only a colonist from the 

 Continent. Turner, the herbalist (1548), wrote: " Antirhinon 

 groweth in many places of Germany in the come fieldes, and it 

 maye be called in Englishe calfe snoute." The Welsh have the 

 same name, trwyn y llo. Manx : blaa laanee, calf's flower. By 

 '■'■Sriumh" Threkeld means srubh, the Irish for snout. 



Scrophularia nodosa — Figwort. Gaelic: /us nan cnapan, the 

 knobbed plant, from its knobbed roots. Old English: kernel 

 wort. Donn-lus {Dun-lus, O'Reilly), brown-wort, from the brown 

 tinge of the leaves. Farach dubh — dub A, dark. Irish : fotrum 

 (fot, fothach), glandered — from the resemblance of its roots to 

 tumours. In consequence of this resemblance it was esteemed a 

 remedy for all scrofulous diseases ; hence the generic name 

 Scrophularia. 



Digitalis purpurea — Foxglove. Gaelic: lus-nam-ban-sith, the 

 fairy women's plant. Meuran slth (Stuart), the fairy thimble. 

 Irish: an siothan (sioth, Gaelic: sith) means peace. Shhich, a 

 fairy, the most active sprite in Highland and Irish mythology. 



