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seicheirghlan, from seiche, hide or skin. It was formerly boiled, 

 and "an ointment or distilled water was made from it, which 

 addeth much to beauty, and taketh away spots and wrinkles of 

 the skin, sun-burnings and freckles, and adds beauty exceed- 

 ingly." The name means the " skin-purifier." Bainne bb bhuidhe, 

 the yellow cow's milk. Bainne bb bleacht, the milk-cow's milk. 

 Manx : meil baa, cow's lip. 



P. auricula — Auricula. Gaelic: lus na bann-righ, the queen's 

 flower. Sbbhrach chluasach, the ear-like primrose, formerly called 

 bear's ears. 



P. polyanthus — Winter primrose. Gaelic: Sbbhrach gheamh- 

 raidh. 



Cyclamen hederaefolia — Sow-bread. Gaelic: culurin (perhaps 

 from cul or cullach, a boar, and aran, bread), the boar's bread. 



Lysimachia (from Greek A.oto> p*x6/mi, I fight). 



L. vulgaris — Loose-strife. Gaelic and Irish : lus na slthchaine, 

 the herb of peace {sith, peace, rest, ease ; cdin, state of). Con- 

 aire, the keeper of friendship. The termination " aire " denotes 

 an agent ; and conall, friendship, love. An seileachan buidhe, the 

 yellow willow herb. 



L. nemorum — Wood loose-strife; yellow pimpernel. Gaelic 

 and Irish: seamhair Mhuire (seamhair, seamh, gentle, sweet,, and 

 feur, grass ; seamhrog (shamrock), generally applied to the trefoils 

 and wood-sorrel. (See Oxalis.) Mhuire of Mary ; Mairi, Mary. 

 This form is especially applied to the Blessed Virgin Mary In 

 the Mid-Highlands more frequently called Saman (Stewart). Lus 

 Cholum-chille, the wort of St. Columba, the apostle of Scotland. 

 Columb, a dove ; cille, of the church. This name is given in the 

 Highlands to Hypericum, which see. Rosor (O'Reilly). Eos is 

 sometimes used for lus. Ros-or, yellow or golden rose. " From 

 the Sanskrit, ruhsha or rusha, meaning tree, becomes in Gaelic 

 ros, a tree or treelet, just as daksha, the right hand, becomes dexter 

 in Latin and deas in Gaelic. Ros, therefore, means a tree or small 

 tree, or a place where such trees grow — hence the names of places 

 that are marshy or enclosed by rivers, as Roslin, Ross-shire, Ros- 

 common," &c. — Canon Bourke. 



Anagallis arvensis — Pimpernel, poor man's weather - glass. 

 Gaelic : falcair. Irish : falcaire fiodhain, the wood cleanser (fal- 

 cadh, to cleanse). The name expressing the medicinal qualities 



