II. PINGUICULA. 5? 



leaved Alpine Primula,) be goes on : "These plants are 

 strangers in England ; their natural country is the alpish 

 mountains of Helvetia. They grow in my garden, where 

 they nourish exceedingly, except Butterwoort, which 

 growethin our English squally wet grounds," (' Squally,' 

 I believe, here, from squalid us, though Johnson does not 

 give this sense ; but one of his quotations from Ben Jon- 

 son touches it nearly : " Take heed that their new flow- 

 ers and sweetness do not as much corrupt as the others' 

 dryness and squalor," and note farther that the word 

 ' squal,' in the sense of gust, is not pure English, but the 

 Arabic i Chuaul ' with an s prefixed : the English word, 

 a form of ' squeal,' meaning a child's cry, from Gothic 

 'Squsela' and Icelandic 'squilla,' would scarcely have 

 been made an adjective by Gerarde), " and will not yield 

 to any culturing or transplanting : it groweth especially 

 in a field called Cragge Close, and at Crosbie Kavens- 

 waithe, in Westmerland ; (West-m^r^-land you observe, 

 not mor) upon Ingleborough Fells, twelve miles from 

 Lancaster, and by Harwoode in the same county near to 

 Blackburn : ten miles from Preston, in Anderness, upon 

 the bogs and niarish ground, and in the boggie meadows 

 about Bishop's-Hatfield, and also in the fens in the way 

 to Wittles Meare" (Eoger Wildrake's Squattlesea Mere ?) 

 "from Fendon, in Huntingdonshire." Where doubt- 

 less Cromwell ploughed it up, in his young days, piti- 

 lessly ; and in nowise pausing, as Burns beside his fallen 

 daisy. 



