lxxiv PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
The Bog or Peat Berry ( monog ) is the Cranberry ( Oxycoccos ), which 
is also called muileag (the little frog or frogberry), both from its place 
of growth. 
The Beach Daisy ( neoinean chladaich ) is the Thrift ( Armeria), 
which is also called the Red Top ( bar dearg ), from the colour of the 
flowers. 
The River Leaf ( duiliasg na tiaibhne) is a very appropriate name 
for the Floating Pond Weed (. Potamogeton natans), whose leaves lie 
on the top of the water. It is also called liobhag from the smooth- 
polished texture. 
The Dock of the Dam (,cor-chopaig ) is the Water Plantain (Alisma 
Plant ago), whose big dock-like leaves are often conspicuous in ponds 
and mill-dams. 
The Peat-grass ( moin-fheur ) is the Waved Hair-grass ( Air a flexu- 
osa), so abundant on peaty ground. 
Finally, the common Polypody Fern ( Polypodium vulgare) is 
called the Rock Fern ( raineach na crag ), and also sgeamh na clock, 
which may mean either the reproach or the ornament of the stones. 
3. Names derived from Colour. 
The Yellow one ( buidheag ) is the Creeping Crow-foot or Buttercup 
(. Ranunculus repens ), and probably others of the genus. 
The Yellow Plant of May (jus bhuidhe bealtnimi ) is the Marsh 
Marigold. The month of May was called Beltane or Belteine, from 
the fires ( teine ) of Bel or Baal, the sun-god. Possibly the Marsh 
Marigold, like other yellow flowers, was supposed to be one of Baal's 
plants. 
The Drowned White Leaf -{duileag bhaite bhan) is the White 
Water Lily ( Castalla speciosa ), also called the Water Rose (bior ros). 
The Large Y ellow Weed (lus bhuidhe mor) is the Weld (. Reseda 
Luteola ), but, though the plant is somewhat yellowish in colour, the 
name may be derived from its furnishing a yellow dye. 
The Red Flower of the Woods ( corcan coille ) is an appropriate 
name for the Red Campion ( Lychnis diuma ), whose red flowers have 
probably also suggested the name Cockscomb (cireancoileach). 
The Plant with the Black Seeds (lus nan gran dubh) is Alexanders 
( Smyrnium Olusatrum). 
The Blue Lad (gille guirmein ) is the Field Scabious (. Knautia ), 
with its conspicuous heads of blue flowers. This name is also given 
to the Bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus ), sometimes called simply the 
Blue One (gorman). 
From its black heads, the Knapweed is named the Black Top 
( mullach dubh), or the Black Knot (cnapan dubh). 
The Little Yellow One (buidheag) is a Perthshire name for the 
Daisy (Beilis), which is also called the Noon-Flower (nbinean). 
The Yellow Blossom (bile buidhe), or the Golden Flower (an di- 
thean oir ), is the Corn Marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum). Another 
name is the Stranger or Foreigner (bileach choigreach), which seems 
to suggest, what is probably the case, that the plant was introduced 
with seed corn. 
