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Haller and Scopoli. Crantz is angry with Linnseus for not adopt- 

 ing Eupp's name, and substituting Neottia instead, wliich. lie 

 attributes to invidious feelings. ''Sed nemini bonorem tribuit 

 invidia, nisi adulatori." Stirp. Austriacarum, p. 464, 2d. edit. 

 But the rustic plant-bunter got justice in tbe long run. 



It was unknown in Britain till tbe Eev. J. Ligbtfoot obtained 

 it in marsby woods near tbe bead of Little Locb Broom, in Eoss- 

 sbire. (Flora Scotica, II., p. 523). Several localities bave been 

 added since ; tbe nearest to us is from tbe Edinburgh district. 

 Sir J. E. Smith was " favoured by Mr. Edward John Maughan, 

 a young botanist of Edinburgh, in the summer of 1807, with a 

 copious supply of specimens and living roots, gathered among 

 willows in a peat bog, a little to the south of Dalmahoy bill, 

 about 9 miles from Edinburgh ; some of the roots blossomed in 

 my garden." (Linnaeus' Tour in Lapland, I., p. 223). It is also 

 found on tbe west side of a peat bog near Eavelrig toll, among 

 SaHces. See EngHsh Flora, Hooker's Flora Scotica, and Greville's 

 Flora Edinensis. Linnaeus' first discovery of it is worth re- 

 cording. " In the island of Longoen, three miles from Old 

 Pitboea, I was lucky enough to find growing under a spruce fir 

 tbe coral-rooted Orchis in full bloom, (June 19), which bad never 

 fallen in my way before. It is a very rare plant, and grows so 

 sparingly, that after finding one specimen, there is Httle hope of 

 soon meeting with another." (Tour in Lapland, I., p. 223). He 

 afterwards found reason to alter bis opinion of its rarity, even in 

 this very spot. See Flora Lapponica, No. 255. In looking for 

 it, future explorers should bear in mind its love of moisture. 

 Common in Lapland in swampy woods (Wablenberg Flor. Lapp., 

 p. 220) ; ** In sylvis asperis desertis, in paludibus cespitosis." 

 (Linn. Flor. Succ, p. 317) ; " locis spongiosis umbrosis ad paludes 

 maximas sylvaticas," (Wablenberg, Flor. Ups., p. 293). 



In Switzerland it is found everywhere in fir woods, on the testi- 

 mony of Haller. Pallas observed it on tbe south-west coast of 

 the Crimea, in 1794. (Travels, II., 174). 



5. Goodyera repens, L. 

 " I met with a plant of it in Eamshaw Wood by the road to 

 tbe miU on the south side of Wark Burn in Tynedale." Wallis, 

 Hist, of Nortbd., p. 232. Dr. Thos. Johnson, thought also he had 

 found it in one of his simpling journeys, (Merc. Bot., I., p. 55) ; 

 but, like Wallis' 8 plant, it needs confirmation. 



X 6. Greranium striatum, L. 

 Hab. " It grows abundantly for about two yards distance on 

 tbe banks of a ditch near Eunning-burn farm, StitcbeU. When 

 I got the plants there were hundreds of specimens. I found it 

 growing the year before in the same circumscribed space." Rev. 

 J. C. Meiklejohn. Most bkely this is a garden out-cast ; it is a 

 common border plant, and propagates itself readily by shedding 

 its seed. It is a native of Italy and Greece. 



