[54] Note 2, page 360, line 90.
Nor less the place of curious plant he knows.
In botanical language, "the habitat," the favourite soil or situation of the more scarce species.
[55] Note 3, page 360, line 102.
This is no shaded, run-off, pin-eyed thing.
This, it must be acknowledged, is contrary to the opinion of Thomson, and I believe of some other poets, who, in describing the varying hues of our most beautiful flowers, have considered them as lost and blended with each other; whereas their beauty, in the eye of a florist (and I conceive in that of the uninitiated also), depends upon the distinctness of their colours: the stronger the bounding line, and the less they break into the neighbouring tint, so much the richer and more valuable is the flower esteemed.
[56] Note 4, page 360, line 102.
Pin-eyed.
An auricula, or any other single flower, is so called when the stigma (the part which arises from the seed-vessel) is protruded beyond the tube of the flower, and becomes visible.
[57] Note 5, page 360, line 105.