C. sempervirens — Common cypress. Gaelic : craobh bhroin, 

 the tree of sorrow. Brbn, grief, sorrow, weeping. Craobh uaine 

 giuthais, the green fir-tree. 



"Is cosmhuil mi ri crann uaine giuthais." — HOSEA xiv. 8. 

 I am like a green fir-tree. 



The fir-tree of Scripture (Hebrew berosh and beroth are translated 

 fir-trees) most commentators agree is the cypress. 

 Badge of the Macdougalls. 



Thuja articulata — Thyine wood. Gaelic : fiodh-thine. 

 "Agus gach uile ghne fhiodha thine." — Rev. xviii. 12. 

 And all kinds of thyine wood. 

 Alteration of thya, from 6vw, to sacrifice. Another kind of pine, 

 Hebrew, oren (Irish and Gaelic, oruin), is translated ash in Isaiah 

 xliv. 14, and beech by O'Reilly. 



Cedar — KeSpos. Cedrus Libani, cedar of Lebanon. Gaelic 

 and Irish : crann seudar, cedar tree. 



"Agus air uile sheudaraibh Lebanoin." — Isaiah ii. 13. 

 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon. 

 The cedar wood mentioned in Lev. xiv. 4, was probably Juniperus 

 oxycedrus, which was a very fragrant wood, and furnished an oil 

 that protects from decay — cedar oil, hence figuratively, "Carmina 

 linenda cedro " — i.e., poems worthy of immortality. 



" Agus fiodh sheudar, agus scirlaid, agus hisop." 

 And cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. 



Juniperus — From the Latin Juniperus— junior, younger, and 

 pario, to bring forth, because it brings forth younger berries while 

 the others are ripening. Irish: iubhar-beinne (O'Reilly), the hill 

 yew; iubhar-thalaimh, the ground yew; ubhar-chraige, the rock yew; 

 all given as names for the juniper. Juniperus is mentioned both 

 by Virgil and Pliny. Welsh : merywen. 



J. communis — Juniper. Gaelic and Irish: aiteal, aitinn, aitiol. 

 Aitionn, from Sanscrit ak, to pierce. Latin : acer, sharp, piercing. 



" Ach chaidh e fern astar latha do'n fhksach agus thkinig e agus shuidh e 

 fuidh chraoibh-aiteiV — 1 Kings xix. 4. 



And he went a day's journey into the desert, and he sat under a juniper tree. 

 The juniper of Scripture, Genista monospenna, was a kind of 

 broom. Welsh ; aeth, a point, furze. Irish : aiteann, furze, from 

 its pointed leaves. Bior leacain (in Arran), the pointed hill-side 



