92 On the History of some Bass Plants, by Mr. J. Hardy. 



Robertson, writer in Edr., and David Callender, 

 writer hereof. 



'Charles Maitland is also to give to me in this 

 season two dosen good Sollen-Geese free.' " 



[The Rent of the Basse, 1764 to 1767, is given in Walker's 

 •' Essays on Natural History," p. 287, Edra., 1808, as follows :— 



Rent to Sir Hew Dairy mple, Bart., the pro- 

 prietor, 840 merks, or. £46 13 4 



To the climber, 100 merks, or 5 11 1£ 



To seven men employed in catching the fowls, 



£16 Scots each, or 9 6 8 



To the carrier 36 times to Edinburgh, 2s. ster- 

 ling each time 3 12 



Total £65 3 1£ 



PRODTJCE OF THE BASS. 



They take the Solan Geese 36 times in the 



season, and at a medium 36 each time ; 



which, at Is. 8d. sterling each, is £118 



Sheep's grass , 5 



Ten Scots gallons of oil, drawn from the fat of 



the fowls, at 8d. sterling each pint 2 13 5 



Ten stone weight of feathers, at 10s. sterling 



per stone 5 



Total £130 13 5] 



On the History of some Bass Plants. By James Hardy. 



1. Lavatera arbor'ea, L. Tree-Mallow. 



The key to the specific name of this plant is to be obtained 

 in Theophrastus,, who, speaking of the diversities produced 

 by cultivation upon plants, instances the mallow, which 

 becomes so rapidly arborescent, that in six or seven months 

 it increases to the length and stoutness of a lance, and 

 might suffice for a staff*. Hence the Greek name, Dendro- 

 malache, tree-mallow ; in Galen, Anadendromalache. It 

 then passes to Pliny. " For some writers doe report," says 

 he, " that in Arabia there be a kind of mallowes, which after 



* Theophrasti, "Hist. Plant.," lib. i., cap. v. (J. B. a Stapel), p. 10. Am. 

 sterodami, 1664. 



