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PLANTS OF NORTHERN OUJARAT. 
8. Vernacular Names . 
We have with no little reluctance, and purely to conform with tradi- 
tion, given the local vernacular names for a few of the commonest plants, 
either being useful trees or herbs possessed of burrs which are noticeable 
from their unpleasantness. Cooke has given throughout his Flora verna- 
cular names without stating the vernacular, which is in almost every case 
Marathi. In our area the vernacular is, of course, Gujarati. If enquiry 
were made it would be found that the vernacular names in Kanarese and 
Sindi are again different, while even within the limits of a single lang- 
uage the local names vary from tract to tract. Those who are acquainted 
with ornithological works are familiar with the waste of space which is 
necessitated by the insertion of innumerable vernacular names. And our 
own opinion is that in strictly scientific works, at any fate botanical 
works, all reference to vernacular names would.be best avoided, except in 
those rare cases where the vernacular names afford a further argument 
in the elucidation of some systematic puzzle. 
9. Record of Specimens, 
Future workers will find specimens of very nearly all the species record- 
ed in the list, and from the habitats recorded in it, in the Herbarium of 
the Gujarat College at Ahmedabad. 
