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Note ™, page 71, line 8. 



Heath. 



Erica Vulgaris, or Common Heath . This plant, hut little re- 

 garded in ha])pier climates, is made suhservient to a great variety 

 of purposes in the bleak and barren Highlands of Scotland. The 

 poorer inhabitants make walls of it for their cottages, with alter- 

 nate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth 

 and straw ; the woody roots of the Heath being placed in the 

 centre, tlie tops externally, and mternally. They make their beds 

 of it, bv placing the roots downwards, the tops being uppermost, 

 they are sufficiently soft to sleep upon. Woollen cloth boiled in 

 alum water, and afterwards in a strong decoction of the tops of 

 Heath, comes out a fine orange color. IVitherhig's Bot. 



Sole ", page 72, line 3. 

 The F.ienitig Primrose. 

 CEnothera Biennis, the Tree or Evening Primrose. 



Note °, page 72, line 12. 



The Biitomus. 



Class Enneandr. Monog. Butomus Umbellatus, or Flowering 

 Rush. This the only British plant of the ninth class, and is gene- 

 rally met with in rivers. 



