414 Scientific Intelligence. — Botany . 
S. mnioides ; S. spharicum ; Hypnum moniliforme ; Encalypta 
alpina , &c. 
In the last week in July, Dr Hooker, Mr Burchell, and 
Dr Greville, made an excursion to the Mountains of Clova 
in xingus-shire. They were accompanied by Mr Drum- 
mond of Forfar, an excellent practical botanist, who has ex- 
plored these mountains in repeated journeys, and been extreme- 
ly fortunate, especially in discovering several of the rare plants 
with which that most active and acute of Scottish botanists, Mr 
George Don, had enriched the Flora of his country *. The 
following list contains the rarer plants gathered in this excur- 
sion ; Veronica alpina , L. ; V. serpyllifbUa , var. humifusa ; Alo- 
pecurus alpinus , Sm. ; Poa fieocuosa , Sm. ; P. alpina, L.; Luzula 
arcnata , Hook. FI. Lond. new series, t. 151., (Juncus arcuatus 
Wahl.) Epilobium alsinifolium , Vill. ; Pyrola rotundifblia , L. ; 
P. minor , L. ; P. secunda , L. ; Saxifraga rivularis , L. ; S. ni- 
valis , L. ; Spergula saginoides , L. ; S. subulata , Sm. ; Linnaa 
borealis , L. ; Astragalus campestris , L. ; Hieracium alpinum, 
L. ; H. H alter i, D. C. ; II. Lwwsoni , Vill. ; Sonchus ccendeus , 
(En gl. Bot. t. 2425., S. alpinus, Willd.) ; Serratula alpina , L. ; 
Erigeron alpinum , L. ; Carex rariflora, Sm. ; Betula nana , 
L. ; Salix glauca, L. ; S. arenaria , L ; S. lanata , L ; *S\ wyr- 
s mites, L. ; (E. B. t. 1360.) S. rupestris , Don ; S. phylicifolia , 
L. ; &c. — In the class Cryptogamia, the following rarities oc- 
curred, Gymnostomum Grijfithianum , Sm. ; Grimmia unicolor , 
Hook. Grev. Crypt. FI. t. 123. ; G. torquata , Hornsch. MSS. ; 
Trichostomum fun ale, Schwaegr. ; Dicranum fulvellum , Sm. 
(Weissia P) ; D. strumiferum , Sm. ; Didymodon glaucescens , 
Grev. Crypt. FI. t. 127.; Splachnum vcisculosum , Hedw. ; ♦S'. 
tenue, Dicks ; Orthotrichum speciosum, Nees ; O. Drummon- 
dii , Hook, and Grev. Crypt. FI. t. 115. ; Daltonia heteromalla. 
• Mr Drummond is at present engaged in publishing a collection of dried spe- 
cimens of Scottish Mosses. The first volume has appeared in 4to, entitled, “ Drum- 
mond’s Musci Scotici.” It contains 100 species, arranged like those published 
by Drs Mougeot and Nestler in Germany. The present volume contains, among' 
others, the following new or rare species ; Bartramia ithyjjJiylla , Conostomum bo - 
rea/e, Daltonia heteromalla, Dicranum crispum, Didymodon inclinatum , Diphyscium 
foliosum , Gymnostomum Griffithianum , G. Lapponicum, Hypnum Crista-castrensis, 
//. stramincum , Orthotrichum Drummondii , O. ruplncola, Trichostomum ellipticum , 
Weissia nigrita. The price of each volume is L. 1. 
