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grow there, of the garden variety, with red and yellow fruit, 

 that have heen sown there in the droppings of hirds, like all 

 our so-called wild currants and gooseberries. People still 

 recollect the old garden at Sligh-houses, whence they may 

 have been derived. In an adjoining field, at the roots of 

 Mentha arvensis, there is found a pinky Coccus or scale 

 insect, with its accompanying white excretion, very likely 

 an unnamed species. 



Goodyera repens owes its earliest notice and subsequent 

 specific name to Dr. Joachim Camerarius, physician to the 

 free city of Nuremberg, and son of the friend and biographer 

 of Melanchthon. In his " Hortus Medicus et Philosophicus," 

 Frankfort, 1588, p. iii., he mentions it as growing in opake 

 woods on the mouldering residue of decaying branchlets. 

 His XXXVth Plate is devoted to a characteristic figure of 

 it C^optime" assents Haller), with the name of Orchis radice 

 repente. We may even refer the figure to Conrad Gasner 

 (died 1565), for to this source Haller thinks is to be ascribed 

 the merits of the figures of Camerarius, (Haller " Enum. 

 Stirp. Helv.," p. 18). This figure is copied in Johnson's 

 " Gerard," p. 227 ; Parkinson's " Theatrum Botanicum," p. 

 1355 ; and in a diminished form in John Bauhin's " Historia 

 Plantarum," II., p. 770, where, by the stupidity of the editor, 

 it is transposed. Orchis repens next appears in the " Hortus 

 Aichstettensis" of Basil Besler, Nuremberg, 1613. Cristo- 

 pher Menzel figured varieties with spotted leaves in his 

 " Pugillus Rariorum Plantarum," Berlin, 1682, Plate 3. 

 As a British plant it is omitted in Ray's " Synopsis," 1696, 

 but is given as an alien in his " Sylloge Stirpium," 1694. 

 Its first discoverer in Scotland was perhaps Dr. John Hope, 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh from 

 1762 to 1786 (Bower's « Hist.," III., 19-22), distinguished 

 as the first who publicly taught the Linnsean System in that 

 seminary of learning. (Pulteney's " Sketches," II., p. 387). 

 His locality for it, was in a " wood opposite to Moy-hall, on 

 the south side of the road to Inverness." Compare Light- 

 foot's " Flora Scotica," p. 541, with Hudson's " Flora An- 

 glica," p. 387. The original specific title has adhered to it, 

 but the generic underwent much variation, till Dr. Robert 

 Brown, in the "Hortus Kewensis," established for this plant 

 the genus Goodyera, so named from Mr. John Goodyer, of 

 Maple-Durham in Hampshire, who contributed many rare 

 plants to Johnson, Parkinson, and How, and the aid of 

 whose manuscripts Dr. Merret considered to have been an 

 important boon to his " Pinax." 



