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Irish: sidkag, probably the same as Irish, saileog (Anglo-Saxon, 

 salig, sallow). Siril — the old Irish name — (in Turkish su means 

 water), in Irish and Gaelic, the eye, look, aspect, and sometimes 

 ' tackle (Armstrong). The various species of willow were exten- 

 sively used for tackle of every sort. Ropes, bridles, &c, were 

 made from twisted willows. " In the Hebrides, where there is 

 so great a scarcity of the tree kind, there is not a twig, even of 

 the meanest willow, but what is turned by the inhabitants to- 

 some useful purpose." — Walker's "Hebrides." And in Ireland 

 to this day "gads," or willow ropes, are made. Geal-sheileach 

 (Armstrong), the white willow or sallow tree. Irish : crann sailigk 

 Fhrancaigh, the French willow. Dye of flesh colour from the bark. 

 S. babylonica — The Babylonian willow. Gaelic: seileach an 

 t-srutha (sruth, a brook, stream, or rivulet), the willow of the brook. 



" Agus gabhaidh sibh dhuibh fein air a' cheud la meas chraobh aluinn, agus 

 seileach an t-srutha." — Lev. xxiii. 40. 



And take unto yourselves on the first day fruit of lovely trees, and willows 

 of the brook. 



Myricace^e. 



Myrica gale — Bog myrtle, sweet myrtle, sweet gale. Gaelic : 

 rideag. Irish : rideog, rileog (changing sound of d to I being 

 easier. Roid is the common name in the Highlands, perhaps from 

 the Hebrew rothem, a fragrant shrub. Kelly (in his Manx 

 Dictionary) speaks of a plant " lus roddagagh," which, he says 

 " was used for dyeing and for destroying fleas." It was used for 

 making a yellow dye. It is doubtless this plant. It is used for 

 numerous purposes by the Highlanders, e.g., as a substitute for 

 hops ; for tanning ; and from its supposed efficacy in destroying- 

 insects, beds were strewed with it, and even made of the twigs of 

 gale. And to this day it is employed by the Irish for the same 

 purpose by those who know its efficacy. The rideog is boiled, and 

 the tea or juice drank by children to kill ' the worms.' Raideog in 

 Donegal (O'Donovan). Same name. "The hills in Raasay abound 

 with the sweet-smelling plant, which the Highlanders call gaul." — 

 BoswelPs Tour with Dr. Johnson. 



Badge of the Clan Campbell. 



Conifers. 

 Pinus — French : le pin. German : pyn-baum. Italian : il pino. 



