.504 Mr Bushnan 07i the Linnaa horealis. 



Linnnea, in some measure would keep pace with the progress 

 of practical botany in Britain. 



The Knock of Alves is immediately on the south side of a 

 road leading from Elgin to Forres, lying about three miles from 

 the former place, and forming part of the estate of A. Forteath, 

 Esq. of Newton. The plant grows on the north side of the hill, 

 within a few yards of a tower erected on the top, to the memory 

 of the late Duke of York. The access to the tower is by a path 

 gently winding up to the top of the hill, and, in forming this 

 path, part of the Linnaea has evidently been cut away, and bo- 

 tanists have to congratulate themselves that this beautiful and 

 interesting plant has not entirely been swept off: so narrow in- 

 deed is the escape the Linnaea has made, that the honest coun- 

 trymen of Moray, did they know its rarity and value in the 

 eye of the botanist, would not hesitate to ascribe its preservation 

 from the ruthless agency of the spade and pick-axe to the weird 

 sisterhood, wishful to preserve this ornament to their Knock, 

 which, since the days of Macbeth, has been held to be their fa- 

 vourite place of nightly gathering and resort. 



J/r Macgillivray^ Assistant-keeper of the Royal Museum., 

 Edinburgh, communicates the following note in regard to the 

 LinncBa : — 



Two large patches of Linnaea borealis occur in a fir wood on 

 the south side of the river Don, opposite Fintray House, about 

 sevea miles from Aberdeen, The first patch was discovered by 

 Mr Craigie, the second by myself while searching for Mr 

 Craigie's patch. 



Several localities in Aberdeenshire were also discovered by the 

 Rev. Mr Mackie, now a preacher in Holland. 



