Borovichev E.A. Botanical excursion on the Northern Soroya. Hammerfest, 2014.

Plant names and vege ta tion t y pes Each nation has developed the common names for the plants growing around, but due to differences in languages and knowledge, the same plant species may bear many different common names, or the same name may be used for several different species. In order to precisely generalize knowledge o f plants, a formal scientific procedure for naming and describing plant species has been developed over the long course o f history. Most Norwegian plants were described and named by famous Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose fundamental work laid the ground for the scientific nomenclature o f plants. For accurate describing of plants and their parts there was used Latin language, as the common and international language of science. Latin Velvet Bells (Bartsia alpina) took her generic name in the memory o fbotanist J. Bartsch (1710-1938). friend o fCarl Linnaeus. The species name 'alpina "is connected with its occurrence mainly in mountains alpine zone The Latin name o fCloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) consists o fits genus name “Rubus " (Latin word) and species name 'chamaemorus’constructedfrom two Greek words names of plants have the advantage of being the same in all countries; they can be very descriptive and have their own little stories to tell. They are commonly binomial, constructed of two words - the name o f genus and the name o f species. Some names contain information Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia). Name o f the genus Saxifraga 'means rock breaker 'and dates back to Dioscorides, the Greek physician and botanist (circa 40-90 AD). The species name 'oppositifolia' explainsposition o fthe leaves — two leaves opposite to each other; positioned along the stem in pairs 22