XXXV1 FLORA ORCADENSIS. 
more than likely that Dr Wallace was the botanist 
having a herbarium of Orkney plants beside him. 
He mentions the order of Malvacee as having no 
_representative in the county. This is still almost 
true. I never saw one growing in the open country ; 
but about a month ago some pupils brought very 
fine specimens of Malva moschata from a grass field 
on the farm of Greentofts. They had come with 
seeds, no doubt, and the lovely summer enabled 
them to develop and flower beautifully. This is an 
exceedingly interesting list, containing some 260 
species, at so early a date. Subsequent botanists 
must have had their work greatly simplified by 
having so complete a “Flora” to work from. <A few 
of these were garden plants; several of them are 
not now found in Orkney, and it is even doubtful 
whether some of them ever grew here. I may give 
a few extinet or mistaken ones culled from his list :— 
Adiantum aurewm, gotden maidenhair; Hypervcwm 
androsemum, St. John’s wort ; Canpanula rotundi- 
folia, hair-bell ; Carduus nutans, musk thistle ; 
Cynoglossum officinale, hound’s-toneue ; Gentranella 
autumnalis, dwarf gentian; Geraniwm Columbium, 
dove’s foot; Hypericum quadranglum, St. Peter's 
wort; Sium minimum, least water-parsnip. His list 
is rather curious; several of his species must have been 
non-indigenous. His dwarf gentian may probably 
have been the plant I found in North Ronaldshay 
and Swanney, tirsay, and now named Gentiuna 
Bultieu. There is much interest attached to a list 
published a few years before Linnzeus was born, when 
classification and nomenclature were in their infancy. 
