8 CHAPTER 27. 
having led the way in that branch, and fin-^ 
gularly promoted the ftudy of the antiqui-- 
ties of his country, he is juftly entitled to 
that honourable ftation he bears among the 
writers q£ North -Britain 
WALLACE. 
In the year 1700, was publiflied, An 
Account of the iflands of Orkney^'' by 
James Wallace, M.D. F.R.S. which 
contains a catalogue of fome of the indige- 
nous plants of that northern region. Flora 
is not exuberant in her gifts in the chilling 
regions of the north. I have not feen this 
book ; but I read, that the arborejcent^ an4 
fome other tribes, particularly the malva- 
ceoiis^ are fparingly feen in thefe iflands. 
PRESTON. 
I know not whether there was any fuper- 
intendant to the Garden of Edinburgh^ be- 
* Kis name was applied by LinN-^^us, in the Flora 
Lapnica^ to a fma]! plant of the Ventandrons clafs ; which 
was known to Cafpar Bauhine and others, and confider- 
ed by them as allied to the Fragarice^ and the Pentaphylla, 
It was firil figured by Sieeald in his '^Prodromus -^''^ be- 
ing found in Rriiain only on the Highland mountains. 
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