Plants

"Plant Lore in Gaelic Scotland", a chapter of Flora of the Outer Hebrides by R. Pankhurst, published by British Museum of Natural History, London, May l991, pp 56-60.

"The Folklore of Plants in Scotland", in Plants and People: Economic Botany in Northern Europe, 800-1800, edited by J.H. Dickson and R.R. Mill, (Procedings from the1993 Symposium of the Royal Botanical Society of Scotland, Plants and People), Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

Contributions to the Dictionary of the Folklore of Plants in Britain and Ireland, edited by Roy Vickery, British Museum of Natural History, London, 1996.

Foreword to Ainmean Gaidhlig Lusan by Joan Clark and Iain MacDonald, Belfast 1999.

The following flowers and plants appear in Scottish Customs
"Flowers and plants":

apple , pp.. 87-91
barley , pp.. 87-91
bog myrtle p. 220
broom, p. 184
cabbage , p. 92, p. 109, p. 180
carl-doddie, pp.. 87-91
castoc , pp.. 87-91
corn , pp.. 87-91
dandelion , p. 92
flax , pp.. 87-91
heather , p. 128
hempseed , p. 92
lilac , p. 184
lint , pp.. 87-91, p. 92
may blossom, p. 184
oats , pp.. 87-91
orchis, pp.. 87-91
peas , pp. 87-91
primroses , p. 184
red and white flowers p, 184, 185
ribwort , pp.. 87-91
snowdrops p. 182
straw p. 211
thistles p. 169-171
vegetables. p. 110

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