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P. tremula — Aspen. Gaelic and Irish : critheann, from crith, 

 tremble. Manx : cron craaee, trembling tree. 



" Mar chritheach 'san t-slne."— Ull. 

 Like an aspen in the blast. 



With the slightest breeze the leaves tremble, the poetic belief 

 being that the wood of the Cross was made from this tree, and 

 that ever since the leaves cannot cease from trembling. Eabhadh. 

 Welsh : aethnen (aethiad, smarting). Manx : chengey ny mraane, 

 ■wives' tongues (never still!) The mulberry tree of Scripture is 

 •supposed to be the aspen (Balfour), and in Gaelic is rendered 

 traobh nan smiur. (See Morus and Rubus fruticosus.) 



"Agus an uair a chluinneas tu fuaim siubhail ann am mullach chraobh nan 

 smeur, an sin gluaisidh tu thu fein." — 2 Samuel v. 24. 



And when thou hearest a sound of marching on the tops of the mulberry 

 rtrees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself. 



The badge of Clan Ferguson, according to some authorities. 



Salix — According to Pictet, from Sanskrit, s&la, a tree. 



" II a passe au saule dans plusieurs langues 

 . . . Ces noms derivent de sala." 



Gaelic and Irish: seileach, saileog, sal, suil. Cognate with Latin: 

 salix. Manx : shellagh. Fin. : salawa. Anglo-Saxon : salig, 

 salh, from which sallow (white willow) is derived. Welsh: helyg, 

 willow. (See S. viminalis?) 



S. viminalis— Osier willow ; cooper's willow. Gaelic and 

 Irish : fineamhain, a long twig — a name also applied to the vine. 1 

 Vimen in Latin means also a pliant twig, a switch osier. One of 

 the seven hills of Rome (Viminalis Collis) was so named from a 

 willow copse that stood there ; and Jupiter, who was worshipped 

 among these willows, was called " Viminius;" and his priests, and 

 those of Mars, were called Salii for the same reason. The wor- 

 ship was frequently of a sensual character, and thus the willow has 

 become associated with lust, filthiness. Priapus was sarcastically 

 called " Salacissimus Jupiter," hence salax, lustful, salacious : and 

 in Gaelic, salach (from sal); German, sal, polluted, defiled. The 

 osier is also called bunnsag, buinneag, a twig, a stock. Maothan, 

 from maoth, smooth, tender. Gall sheileach, the foreign willow. 



S. caprea, and S. aquatica — Common sallow. Gaelic and 



1 ' ' Finemhain fa m' chomhair " (in Genesis) — a vine opposite to me. 



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