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Irish : praiseach mhin. Min, meal, ground fine, small. The 

 plant is covered with fine mealy powder. Still used by poor 

 people as a pot-herb. Ceathramha-luain-griollog (O'Reilly), loin- 

 quarters, sallad. Ceathramadh caorach (Bourke), sheep's quarters. 

 The name griollog is applied also to the samphire. Manx : coll 

 mea, fat or luxurious cole or cabbage (Cregeen). 



A. portulacoides — Purslane-like orache. Gaelic and Irish : 

 purpaidh, purple. A name also given to the poppy. Name given 

 on account of the purple appearance of the plant, it being streaked 

 with red in the autumn. 



A. littoralis — Marsh orache. Eirelehog (Threl). The Irish 

 Gaelic name seems to suggest its habitat. Eire, our air, on, and 

 leog, a marsh. Welsh : Llygwyn Arfor, the sea-side orache. 

 Some of the plants of this order are used as pot-herbs ; the roots 

 of others form valuable articles of food, as beet and mangold 

 wurzel — plants now famous as a new source of sugar instead of 

 the sugar cane. 



Chenopodium vulvaria (or olidum) — Stinking goosef oot. Irish : 

 elefleog. El or ela, a swan ; and fle or fleadh, a feast. It was 

 said to be the favourite food of swans. Scotch : olour (Latin : 

 olor, a swan). 



C. album — White goosef oot. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach 

 fhiadhain, wild pot-herb. The people of the Western Highlands, 

 and poor people in Ireland, still eat it as greens. Praiseach ghlas, 

 green pot-herb, a name given to the fig-leaved goosef oot (ficifolium). 

 Teanga mhin or mhin, the mealy or smooth tongue. Cal liath- 

 ghlas, the grey kale, in Argyllshire. 



C. murale — Wall goosefoot. The wall kale. Praiseach was 

 also applied to cabbages. Latin : brassica, a cabbage. This par- 

 ticular "goosefoot" is found on walls and waste places near houses 

 — rare in Ireland, and doubtful in the Highlands. Irish : 

 Praiseach na balla. 



C. Bonus-Henricus — Good King Henry, wild spinage, English 

 Mercury. Gaelic and Irish : praiseach brathair, the friar's pot- 

 herb. (Brathair means brother, also fnax—frere). Its leaves are 

 still used as spinage or spinach, in defect of better. Manx : glassan. 



