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Mr. Arthur Bruce to J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Edinburgh, Dec. 2, 1792. 
Convallaria verticillata*, I beg leave to men- 
tion, is a true native from the den Rechip, a deep, 
wooded gully from the hills in the Stormont, Perth- 
shire, about four miles north-east from Dunkeld. 
On the 7th of July the flowers were beginning to 
fade. Except the Convallaria verticillata, I cannot 
inform you of any acquisitions entirely new, not- 
withstanding in the course of last summer there 
have been discovered, not far from this city, some of 
our very rare Scots plants, hitherto unnoticed, par- 
ticularly, Astragalus uralensis, North-ferry hills ; 
Orobus sylvaticus, Bread-hill, near Edinburgh ; 
Anagallis tenella, Hunter's bog, Arthur's seat ; and 
about two years since, I found 7rientahs europea 
only six miles north from the ferry. All these 
things taken together strongly justify your ex- 
pectation of the Linnea borealis being hereafter 
found a native also in N. Britain f. 
I am happy to inform you that the Natural Hi- 
story Society still continues to flourish. At pre- 
sent, and for some time past, chemical pursuits 
* Narrow-leaved Solomon’s Seal—Fngl. Bot. fig. 128. 
+ This beautiful plant was discovered in 1795 by Professor 
James Beattie, jun., of Aberdeen, in an old fir wood, at Englis- 
maldie. ‘ Linnzeus,” Sir James Smith tells us in the seventh vo- 
lume of Eng]. Bot., “has traced a pretty fanciful analogy between 
his own early fate, and this ‘little northern plant, long over- 
looked, depressed, abject, flowering early, —and we may now 
add, more honoured in its name than any other.” 
