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than an inch in diameter. I have noticed it frequently in 
the lower woods, among the Sidlaw Hills, and on the Clova 
and Canlochen Mountains, at a great elevation. 
This curious and beautiful plant has been arranged under 
Di ' oseracece by Babington, and Baxifragece by Lindley ; but 
with neither of these, nor the present order, does it seem to 
have a perfect affinity. By its four stigmata being sessile, 
and the want of circinate vernation, it differs from JDrosera ; 
its four-celled capsule, and want of styles, keep it apart from 
Saxifraga ; and while, in Hypericum, the stamens are nume- 
rous and generally polyadelphous, or united into bundles, the 
Parnassia has only five. In some of its characters it agrees 
with each of these orders, yet differs from them all, and more 
especially in the remarkable form of its glandular nectaries. 
Ord. XIX.— ACERINE^. 
Gen. Br. 1. F. 1. Sp. Br. 2. F. 2. 
Acer, L. Maple. 
Br. sp. 2. F. 2. 
A. Pseudo -platanus, L. Greater Maple, or Sycamore. 
H. 65, B. 59. — F. May, June. T. 
Hot uncommon ; but probably neither this nor the follow- 
ing have any claim to rank as natives. 
In former times, the poor in this vicinity (Montrose) made 
a wine from the sap of this species, which flows very copi- 
ously in the spring. Mr. A. Croall. 
A. campestris, L. Common Maple. H. 65, B. 59. — F. 
May, June. T. 
Wood at Mains of Halkerton, Mr. J. Cruickshank. 
Ord. XX.— GERANIACE^E. 
Gen. Br. 2. F. 2. Sp. and v. Br. 18, F. 11. 
Geranium, L. Crane’s-bill. 
Br. sp. and v. 15. F. 10. 
G. sanguineum, L. Bloody Crane’s-bill, or Crimson- 
flowered Geranium. H. 66, B. 61. — F. May, July. P. 
