PREFACE. 



every affiftance that ingenuity and friendihip 

 could yield. This young gentleman, a moil 

 accurate obferver of Nature's works, and 

 critically versed in the Erfe language, and 

 the manners and cuftoms of his country, I 

 had the good-fortyne to fhare as a compa- 

 nion and fellow-traveller through the High- 

 lands and Hebrides ; and to him I am obliged 

 for a great portion of the Highland botany, 

 for many of the medical and ceconomicaU and 

 all the fuperjiitious ufes of plants which are 

 interfperfed in this work, and to him I owe 

 the fupply of their Erfe or Gaulic names. 



To the Rev. Dr. Burgefs of KirkmichaeU 

 in Diimfriesjhirej I am eminently indebted 

 for the botany of the Lowlands. Unfolicited 

 and without referve, he was ready to impart 

 all the botanical difcoveries he had made 

 during the courfe of many years. To him 

 I am likewife obliged for the provincial 

 names of plants, or thofe made ufe of by 

 the common people of the country. 



To thefe afliftances from, gentlemen con- 

 ftantly refident in Scotland^ I mufl add the 

 friendly aids I have received from thofe who, 



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