i80 Scientific Intelligence .* — Botany . 
Cave, Loch Slappen, and on the shore at Stenchall, Skye. This 
plant was, this autumn (1825), for the first time in England, 
found by Dr Woodforde at the Devil's Frying-pan, Cornwall. 
Circcea lutetiana , Tobermorry, island of Mull. This is the 
plant of the Flora Britannica, and quite different from the com- 
mon luxuriant varieties of Circcea alpina , whether it be specifi- 
cally distinct or not. Primula Scotica , in great abundance 
around Westfield, near Thurso. Scutellaria galericulata grows 
in abundance on many parts of the West Coast, on heaps of dry 
gravel above the high-water mark, and even on a dry stone 
wall south of the eastern entrance to the Crinan Canal. Vero- 
nica officinalis var. rigida , cliffs by the shore, near Portree, 
Skye. Till specimens in flower can be obtained, this may be 
considered a variety of V. officinalis , though there is much rea- 
son to believe it distinct. Leaves lanceolate, sharply, rather 
deeply, and sometimes twice toothed, shining, and very thick 
and rigid. Stems many, prostrate, rooting, nearly devoid of 
hairs common flower-stalks covered with yellow pubescence ; 
spike crowded ; capsules more wedge-shaped, and less notched 
than in F. officinalis ; slightly hairy. These plants are distin- 
guished from V. Allionii by the shape of their leaves, and the 
depth of the’ serratures ; and they are more rigid than any fo- 
reign specimens which Dr Graham has seen. — R. G. 
31. Rare Native Plants found in Perthshire. — Mr David 
Bishop, a meritorious practical gardener, and keen botanist, has, 
during the past summer, detected four rare plants in Perthshire. 
. — 1. Pyrola uniflora. — This was formerly known only as a na- 
tive of a fir-wood near Brodie in Nairnshire ; and having 
disappeared there, owing to the cutting down of the tim- 
ber, was regarded as extinct in Britain. At the Perthshire ha- 
bitat now observed by Mr Bishop, we understand it occurs in 
considerable abundance. — 2. Lotus minor . This he has found 
in two stations ; one near Perth, and the other 30 miles to the 
westward. L. minor (like L. major), has by some been regard- 
ed as only a marked variety of L„ corniculatus ; but Mr Bishop 
considers both major and minor to be specifically different from 
corniculatus. He remarks, 64 L. corniculatus is never found in 
flower after the first week of September ; while L. minor conti- 
nues in flower until the end of the month, and has at the time 
