A Finnegans Wake Gaarden
PREFACE
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ragwords 478.9.  "There are fully six hundred and six ragwords in your malherbal" - McHugh (E): "From the botanical plane there are 606 ragworts (pronounced 'ragwerts') in Yawn's bad herbal" (p. 15).

raisin 130.16.  raisins 154.31; 183.13.  Sultana reiseines 499.30 (q.v. jordon almonders).

ramp [wild onion] 78.21 (3); 226.28; 252.5; 407.8; 519.17.

raspberries 438.10.  raspberry 529.2.

rattan 553.3.

redthorn 15.3.

redwoodtree 30.14.

reed 385.6; 442.34.

Rhoda Dundrums 135.31. rhodatantarums 445.17.

rhubarb 249.11.  rhubarbarorum 555.24.  rhubarbarous 171.16.

rice 86.35; 225.31; 314.33; 404.29; 485.26.  Rice 420.30. ricecourse 423.30.  riceplummy 405.34.  rices 16.35.  riceypeasy 406.3 (q.v. peas).  paddyplanters 25.19 - AWN (Vol. v, No. 4, 1968, p. 52):  Malay - padi = rice.

riverflags 207.3.

Rosasharon 34.29 - McHugh (A):  "Song of Solomon 2:1:  'I am the rose of Sharon, & the lily of the valleys.'"  Rosensharonals 620.4.

rose 14.18; 43.27; 44.4; 52.9; 81.32; 96.1; 101.7; 122.25; 126.24; 130.30; 140.26; 142.36; 249.26; 264.F3; 290.1; 304.2; 421.16; 441.16; 473.16; 476.33; 477.24; 502.7; 588.35.  Rose 92.18; 205.24; 223.6; 236.8; 267.F1; 485.12; 495.24.  rosebuds 583.21; 583.22.  roses 94.36; 267.28; 321.32; 463.9.  rosyposy 430.22.  roes 96.2.  durck rosolun 351.9.  little black rose 277.16 - Boldereff:  "Through years of suffering and torture when England did everything possible to destroy the Irish as a people, the Irish poet sang of his country without naming her, because it was treason to sing of Ireland; thus she came to be Roesin Dubh  'Dark little rose'" (p.162).  duskrose 15.1.  mossroses 527.8.  tuberclerosies 541.36.  wildrose 210.10; 229.11.  pulled a rosy one 21.15 and nipped a paly one 22.03 - AWN (1, 1963, p.8):  "Pluck a Rose - what a woman says when going to necessary house which in country stands in garden."

Rosemiry 444.29.  rose marines 264.F3.  rose marine 441.16 (ros marinus (L) = "sea dew" the herb rosemary). 

rowantree 588.31 -  Garvin:  "In the legendary days of King Cormac Mac Airt, a Munster druid named Magh Quith ...came to a confrontation with Cormac's druid Ciorthruadh, the latter ordered every soldier in Cormac's army to hew him down a bough of the mountain rowan and then to make fires with branches:  If the smoke went southwards, they should charge; if northwards, they must retreat with it" (p. 29).  Fargnoli and Gillespie:  "Rowan, Richard.  One of the central characters in Joyce's play Exiles, Richard is a Joyce-like artist figure, returned to Ireland after a self-imposed exile on the continent" (s.v. Rowan).  Mrs. Rowan Greene is among the "fashionable international world...at the wedding of the...grand high chief ranger of the Irish National Foresters" in Ulysses (p.321/327).  (q.v. quicken).

ruddyberry 27.16.

rue 17.25; 226.11 (3x); 279.F11; 433.36; 558.30; 577.30.  Rue 60.1; 227.14; 444.12.  rueroot 130.25.

rushes 278.10; 460.24.

rye 379.26.


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