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by the late Mr John Mackay. This is an ex- 

 cellent habitat, and certainly much prefer- 

 able to that given at p. 222. 



Phellandrium 



aquaticum, p. 225. This plant, which I had 

 suspected to be extirpated, again appeared 

 last summer (18 10) in the ditches near Cor- 

 storphine, where I then gathered specimens. 



Melampyrum 



syhaticum, p. 234. In giving Auchindenny 

 and Roslin woods, as habitats for this very 

 rare plant, I have been inadvertently led into 

 a mistake. The species hitherto found in 

 these woods is, I am persuaded, nothing else 

 than M. pratense. I only detected my er- 

 ror in the month of August 18 10, when I 

 had an opportunity of observing the true 

 M. sylvaticum for the first time, in the Forest 

 of Blackhall, Kincardineshire, along with 

 Dr Brine and my ever to be lamented friend 

 the late Professor James Beattie of Aber- 

 deen, whose premature death, on the 4th 

 of October last, has deprived this country 

 of a man equally versed in the principles 

 and practice of the science of Botany, two 

 qualities seldom found united in the same 

 individual. His assiduity as a practical bo- 

 tanist, was rewarded by the discovery of 

 Linnjea borealis, Carex Davciliiana, and 

 C, Micheliana. 



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