152 Remarks on the Flora Scotica o/’Dr Hooker. 
Situation, or Altitude, time of Flowering, and observations re- 
garding the Uses, economical or medicinal, to which plants have 
been or might be applied by the natives, have been treated ; 
for such are essentially necessary in the construction of a Flora, 
*and, although not mentioned in the title-page, have been more 
or less noticed through the work. 
In looking over the volume, a Scotchman, whether High- 
lander or liowlander, might be somewhat surprised to find 
none of the names which he has been accustomed to hear 
among the natives. We have indeed adopted^the English 
language, but the mass of the people still retain their original 
dialects ; and in a Flora of our country we might expect to be 
humoured a little in this particular. Our Blaewort, Gueel, 
Rot-girss, Rantree, Arn, Soui'ock, and other names, together 
with Neonein, Slanlus, Achlasan-Challum-cille, Seamrag; &c., 
are not less expressive, nor less worthy of a place in a Scottish 
Flora, than their English synonyms. Some of the English 
names also are objectionable, as being, instead of vernacular, 
mere echoes of the Latin systematic names ; for^example, Tu- 
berous Orobus^ instead of the legitimate name Heath-pea. And 
the whole Cryptogamic legion is without vernacular names, 
English, Scottish, or Gaelic, excepting a very few that have 
been assigned a place among the notes. 
The habitats^ it is believed, are correct, in as far as the plan 
used might admit. Every country has its own peculiarities, 
and reference ought to be made to them. In Scotland we have 
nearly the same varieties as those described by Linnaeus, in his 
Philosophia Botanica. We have corn-fields, fields, cultivated 
places, gardens ; pastures dry and wet, meadows, marshes, 
ditches, ponds, lakes, rivefs, rivulets, springs, \Vells, mountains, 
bills, with alpine situations and valleys, ravines, rocks, maritime 
cliffs, sands on the sea-shore, heaths, moors, woods of fir, birch, 
hazel, with many other varieties t)f situation. Then for soil 
w^ have sand, both quartzose and shelly, or calcareous, peat in 
abundance, gravel, clay, marl, black soil, and their coiripounds. 
For subsoil we have granite, and gneiss of numerous varieties, 
porphyry, amygdaloid, sandstone, quartz, compact felspar, mi- 
ca-slate, clayslate, claystone, puddingstone, greenstone, basalt, 
