Locaiiues. — YVoods ami Imfy heaths in mountainous counlries. In the 
North of England, hut very rare. — Durham ; A Hum Works near Caile'ou Gis- 
borough : Mr. Wncnti.L Waskerly Faik, near Wolsingham: Mr. Thorn- 
n i li.. Near Butsfield and Spring-houses: N. J. Winch, Esq. On the wooded 
and rocky hill above Hepburn, at Chillingham, plentiful; and on Hedge- 
hope, about halfway to the summit: Dr. G. Johnston. — Northumberland. On 
moors a mile and a half east of Rothbury : N. J. Winch, Esq. Beyond the 
Roman Wall, five miles noitli of Hexham, and on moors west ot Harbottle : T. 
Y\ 1 M. 1 SF.L, in Ray's Syn. In a fir plantation at Catcherside, four miles west of 
\\ allington, on moors about Green Leighton, and by Rothley : Miss Emma 
Th tvi.r.Y an. Jn the plantation surrounding Brislie I ower : Mr. F. Ministy. 
Near Bassington, three miles west of Alnwick : Miss Pit ingle. Abundant in a 
moorish pas'uie above Twizell House; RugleyDean; and on high grounds near 
Ross Castle, Chillingham: N. J. Winch, Esq. — Yorksh. At the eastern ex- 
tremity of Humbles Meet' near Ilelvvick, among rushes : T. Williskl, in Ray’s 
Syn. Moors near llelmsley: Mr. Teesdale. Boggy pasture near Paleley 
Bridge, and near Ripon: Mr. Brunton. Dallow Gill: Rev. J. Dalton. 
Moors near Harrow'gate, and above Kirhy-Moorside : Rev. A rciioeacon Pn u- 
son. Near Scarborough: Rev. A. Bloxam. Woody bank near the Race. 
Ground, Scaiborough: E. F. Witts, Esq. On the top of Swill Hill, 1300 feet of 
elevation, four miles from Halifax, on the road to Keighley, w here it has probably 
attained its southern limit in Great Britain: N. B.G — SCOT LAN 1). Aberdeensh. 
Stocket Moor; ilazelhead W’oods; Hills at Nigg, and numerous other woods 
and moors : abundant: Mr. Dickie, in FI. Abred. Castleton, on the loof of a 
house; Braemar Moors; and Avon Hills: Mr. H. C. Watson, in N. B. G. — 
Argylesh. Loch Ransa, Arran: Mr. Murray. — Edinburyhsh. Near the Old 
Reservoir above Colinton, and at Ravel rig: N. B. G .— Elginsh. Oak-wood, 
Knock of Alves, Logie, Dunphail Urquhart, 6cc. 6ic. : Rev. G. Goudon, in 
N. B. G. — Fi/esh. d ownhill Wood, Dunfermline: N. B . G.—Forfarsh. On 
the summit of the Clova Mountains: Mr. Don. On hillocks in Glen Ciova ; 
and ascending to the table-lands above Glen Dole: N. B. G. In the Beech 
and fit Woods of Kinnaidy : Sir W. J. Hooker. — Inverness-shire ; Near In- 
verness: N. B.G. Field of Colloden: Mr. Murray. — Nairnsh. Fiequent : 
Rev. G. Gordon, — Perthsh. In a fir-wood one mile from Killin; woods near 
Einglen, S. side of Loch l ay. WooJsat Duukeld; Dungarn-hill ; Strath earn ; 
Dumblane; and Clumie: N. B. G. Ben Lawers ; and Coppice near Auch- 
more: Bot. Misc. Duke of Athol's woods at Blaii : Lightfoot. — I n Ross-sh. 
Rev. G. Gordon. — Skelkirksh. Blackhou<e Heights: Mr. Sikwart.- In Shet- 
land : N. B. G — Sterlingsh. On Ben- Lomond, about one mile of the way up : 
Lightfoot. — Not found in IRELAND. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root slightly tuberous, somewhat creeping. Stems from 3 to 6 
inches high, simple, upright, roundish, with 2 or 3 small, distant, 
hluntish leaves, and from 4 to 8 terminal, larger ones, which are 
inversely egg-shaped, pointed, smooth, and tapering to a stalk at 
the base. Peduncles ( flower-stalks J from 1 to 4, from the axils 
of the upper leaves, 2 or 3 inches long, upright, slender, naked, 
simple, single-flowered. Flowers very elegant, of a hjrilliant white, 
tinged with pink, upright, drooping during the night and in rainy 
weather. Anthers and Stigma often reddish. Seeds from S to 10, 
brown, minutely dotted, and covered with a white membranous 
beautifully reticulated tunic. 
This elegant plant is a native of the northern parts of Europe, and Siberia, 
in woods on the sides of mountains, and on turfy heaths. Linn.eus appears 
to have been quite enchanted with it, from its being the only Lapland (as it 
is also the only British) genus of the seventh class of his artificial System ; 
the number of its stamens, however, are liable to vary, arid in the latter part 
of the season they seldom exceed six in each flower, but whatever their num- 
ber may be, that of the divisions of the calyx and the corolla, and of the 
valves of the capsule, always cnriespond with it. The same great Naturalist 
remarks, that when growing in dry places, the plant has always the apices of 
the petals acute ; and that these are, on the contrary, obtuse, when it inhabits 
a moist situation. 
The Drawing for the accompanying Plate was made fiotu a plant kindly com- 
municated to me by \V. Borher, Esq. 
