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blioch, bliochan, from blioch, milk. Welsh: gwaew'r trenin, king's 



lance. 



' ' Nuair thigeadh am buaichaill a mach, 

 'S gabhadh e mu chill a' chruidh 

 Mu'n cuairt do Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 

 A' bhuail' air 'm bu trie am blioch." — Maclbod. 



When the cowherd comes forth, 

 And follows his cows 

 Around the Bhad-nan-clach-glas, 

 Where the asphodel was numerous. 



Scilla non-scripta — Bluebell ; wild hyacinth. Gaelic : fuath 

 mhnc, pigs' fear or aversion, the bulbs being very obnoxious to 

 swine. Brhg ?ia cubhaig, cuckoo's shoe. Irish: buth muic. 

 Probably buth is the same as bugha (see prunus spinosa), fear, the 

 pigs' fear. Maclauchlan called it lili ghucagach. Manx: gleih 

 muck, blaa muck. The pigs' bouquet, pigs' bloom. Camraasagh, 

 " the herb jackins " (Cregeen). 



" Lili ghucagach nan cluigean." 

 The bell-flowered lily. 



Lus na gingle gorah (Threl). Lus na gineil gorach, the silly 

 children's plant. It was held in no esteem save for its pretty 

 flower. It was not liked by the ancients, because they believed 

 it grew from the blood of Hyakinthos, a youth killed by Apollo 

 with a quoit, when in one of his mad fits, hence the name hyacinth. 



S. verna — Squill (and the Latin, scilla, from the Arabic asgyl). 

 Gaelic: lear-uinnean, the sea-onion. Lear, the sea, the surface of 

 the sea. 



" Clos na min-lear uaine." — OssiAN. 

 The repose of the smooth green sea. 

 Welsh: winwyn y mor, sea-onion. 



Tulipa sylvestris— Tulip. Gaelic : tuiliop. The same name in 

 almost all European and even Asiatic countries. Persian: 

 thoulyb&n (De Souza). 



Hemerocallese — Lail (O'Reilly), not the common garden tulip, 

 but one of the "day lilies.'' They differ from the tulip in nothing 

 except that the flower (the corolla) and the covering (calyx) are 

 joined together, forming a tube of conspicuous length, and some 

 of them have no bulbs, but tubers. The Irish Gaelic name is 



