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come from Carrageen in Ireland. At one time it was in much 

 repute, for from it was manufactured a gelatinous easily digested 

 food for invalids, which used to sell for 2s. 6d. per lb. Mathair 

 an duilisg, the mother of the dulse, as if the dulse had sprung 

 from it. 



Killeen is the usual Irish name for the Irish moss (" Gardening 

 Illustrated," page 304). 



Corallina officinalis. — Gaelic : coireall (MacAlpine). Latin :. 

 corallium, coral. Linean. It was used as a vermifuge. 



Polysiphonia fastigiata. A tuft of this sea-weed was sent to me 

 with the Gaelic name Fraoch mara, sea-heather, written thereon. 



Hemanthalia lorea. — The cup-shaped frond from which the long; 

 thongs spring is called aiomlach, or iomlach {iomlag, the navel), 

 from the resemblance of the cup-shaped disc to the navel. Dr. 

 Neill mentions that in the north of Scotland a kind of sauce for 

 fish or fowl, resembling ketchup, is made from the cup-like 

 or fungus-like fronds of this sea-weed. 



Halydris siliquosa. — Gaelic : roineach mhara, the sea fern. (In 

 the Isle of Skye). 



Chorda filum — Sea-laces. In Shetland Lucky Minny's lines ; 

 Ayrshire, dead men's ropes. Gaelic : gille mu lunn, — gilk, a 

 young man, a servant ; lunn, a wave. Lightfoot mentions that 

 the stalks acquire such toughness as to be used for fishing lines,, 

 and they were probably also used in the manufacture of nets. At 

 all events it is a great obstacle when trawling with nets, as it forms- 

 extensive sea-meadows of long cords floating in every direction. 

 In some parts langadair is given to a "sea-weed, by far the longest 

 one." This one is frequently from twenty to forty feet in length. 

 Driamlaichean, fishing lines. 



Sargassum vulgare (or bacciferum) — Sea-grapes. Gaelic : tilr- 

 usgar (sometimes written trusgar, from trus, gather), from turus r 

 a journey. This weed is frequently washed by the Gulf Stream 

 across the great Atlantic, with beans, nuts, and seeds, and cast 

 upon the western shores. These are carefully gathered, preserved, 

 and often worn as charms. They are called uibhean sithein, fairy 

 eggs, and it is believed that they will ward off evil disposed fairies. 

 The nuts are called cnothan-spuinge, and most frequently are 

 Dolchas urens and Mimosa scandens. To Callithamnion Plocamium, 



