Plants
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note for 'mothal ' and ['uthan'], September 1909
Vocabulary note for 'mothal' and ['uthan'] which reads 'Mothal = Seed of various corn and fish mixed, An [t-uthan = luban]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note for plants, June 1887
Vocabulary note for plants which reads 'Mhongail-mhear = Di-thosd Foxglove = Sithean mor'. Each line of text has been scored through horizontally in pencil.
Vocabulary note for tadpole, dragonfly and some plants, 24 June 1887
Vocabulary note for dragonfly and some plants collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann. The note includes 'Ceanna-Phollan', 'C[eanna] Simid' [both meaning tadpole] and gives 'Tarbh-Narach' as a term for dragonfly and describes its size. It gives 'Cluas an Fheidh' as possibly 'Harts tongue', 'Caol Phail' as a plant of three feet high or more and 'Meac-an-mor' as being 'Like Leeks'.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Brocan = bogha-muc = B. hyacthin', 1892
Vocabulary note which reads 'Brocan = bogha-muc = B. hyacthin' [wood hyacinth]. Text has been scored through by a horizontal line.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Giullaichin' = Dearbhadh Lus na sula = Plant to wash to wash things', 22 September 1909
Vocabulary note which reads 'Giullaichin' = Dearbhadh Lus na sula = Plant to wash to wash things'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Iain Giurain = Puffin grows on logs', June 1887
Vocabulary note which reads 'Iain Giurain = Puffin grows on logs'.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stonal = Danger Mislein Sea Grass', 1894
Vocabulary note which reads '[Stonal = Danger] Mislein Sea Grass'. There are some numbers written before the vocabulary but it is unclear what they represent.
Water Jet Excavation of Roots, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a cross-section of land showing the root system of a plant after a water jet excavation.
Water-Table in Drained and Undrained Land, 1870s-1930s
Illustration of a plant's root system in a water-table in drained and un drained land.
Watercolour of Desmodium sp., Dalhousie, September 1862
Watercolour of Desmodium species, Dalhousie, September 1862.