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Plants

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Note about roots and moss, 11 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/74
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Mr Archie Macrae [Archibald MacRae], that there are 'Roots and moss at Pairc na h-Aoi Northton Harris at low water' which MacRae had seen himself that summer.

Dates: 11 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about shellfish and vocabulary note for gath [mast or oar], 21 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/16
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra telling how a very small form of cockle [strubain] could be found on Loch Lì on Beinn mhor [Beinn Mhòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]: 'very small but alive as if only embryos'. MacPhee states that the Dall Mòr told him that there was an unnamed plant which grew by Loch Lì, which if even the best-shod horse trod on it, it's horseshoe would fall off. The vocabulary note is for gath, a mast or oar.

Dates: 21 May 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about the 'Ealabhi' [St John's wort], 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/64
Scope and Contents

Note about the 'Eala bhi' [eala bhuidhe or St John's wort] that its root is eaten for its sweetness.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about the plant 'Barra-bhrisgean' [silverweed], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/216
Scope and Contents

Note about the plant 'Barra-bhrisgean' [silverweed flower] that it is 'bad for the Clamhra dugh' [probably cloimheach[d] or mange in sheep].

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about the plant [fòid], August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/32
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Fòid = Plant from dyke at Airdtur [Ardtur, An Apainn/Appin, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]'.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about the pool Loch-li in Barraigh/Isle of Barra, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/76
Scope and Contents

Note about the pool Loch-li in Barraigh/Isle of Barra, which is described as being close to Eoligarry [Eòlaigearraidh] and in which a plant, possibly vervain, grows which is said to take off horse shoes. Carmichael also notes that Martin Martin mentioned this pool because small cockles grow in it. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: October 1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about the symbolism of the trinity in the trefoil flower, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/8
Scope and Contents

Note about the symbolism of the trinity in the trefoil flower as observed by Saint Patrick.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about Uamh Airi 'n t Sluic Lochsheilevagh [Uamh Airidh an t-Sluic Loch Sheileabhaig] and accompanying diagram, 25 March 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/40
Scope and Contents Note about Uamh Airi 'n t Sluic, Lochsheilevagh [Uamh Àiridh an t-Sluic, Loch Sheileabhaig, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and accompanying diagram noting its location as being close to Caolas Liursay [Caolas Liubharsaigh] surrounded by 'sticky gluey consistent mud' and describing the place in relation to its given name. He states that on arrival he realised they'd been there before 'although we did not know it which is provoking now that it might have saved all this lost bother'. There is...
Dates: 25 March 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Lus an acrais', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/43
Scope and Contents

Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Lus an acrais' describing it as a 'dangerous plant' which will sicken people. 'it grows from "Night Soil" produced from food taken without grace or other signs of thankfulness. If a person step[s] over or very near it, it has effect on them.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Native Dyes', 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/320
Scope and Contents

Note entitled 'Native Dyes' possibly collected from Ann Macintire [MacIntyre], Iocar [Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] which includes information on the plants which give particular colours, their Gaelic names and how thy were created or used. Also contains some quotations and anecdotes in relation to dyes.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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