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GAELIC NAMES OF PLANTS

"I study to bring forth some acceptable work: not striving to shew any rare invention that passeth a man's capacity, but to utter and receive matter of some moment known and talked of long ago, yet over long hath been buried, and, as it seemed, lain dead, for any fruit it hath shewed in the memory of man.” — Churchward, 1588.

GAELIC NAMES OF PLANTS

(SCOTTISH AND IRISH)

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED IN SCIENTIFIC ORDER, WITH

NOTES ON THEIR ETYMOLOGY, THEIR USES, PLANT
SUPERSTITIONS, ETC., AMONG THE CELTS,

WITH COPIOUS GAELIC, ENGLISH,

AND SCIENTIFIC INDICES

BY

JOHN CAMERON

SUNDERLAND

"WHAT'S IN A NAME? THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE

BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET."

-Shakespeare.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXXXIII

191.

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