FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
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“ The rock of St Skae is a curious, almost isolated, rock, 
about a mile to the west of Usan. It stands in the middle 
of a little bay or hollow, from the inner part of which it 
extends for about a hundred yards to high-water mark, 
where it rests upon the submarine rock. It is perforated at 
the water’s edge, and when viewed from either side, has very 
much the appearance of an elephant’s head, sipping with its 
trunk from the briny wave. From its secluded situation 
and romantic appearance, it was chosen, tradition says, at 
some former period in the dark page of human history, as 
the abode of a sanctified recluse, whose prayers were held in 
high estimation by the passing mariner. The remains of a 
burying ground are still extant on its inner shoulder, and it 
is more than likely that a chapel had once kept it company, 
from whose hallowed portals the 4 music sweet ’ of choiris- 
ters, whose dust now mingles with its ruins, had echoed to 
the wailings of the surge below. 
44 The sides of this rock are shaggy with the grey lichen, 
Ramalina scopulcrum, and festooned with honey-suckle. 
Immense quantities of algae are deposited in the bay, and 
the rocks near low- water are beautifully fringed with the 
Chylocladia Kaliformis.” Mr A. Croall. 
L. Xylosteum , L. Upright Fly Honey-suckle. H. 157, 
B. 141. — F. May, July. S. 
Woods of Burn, in fruit, Sept. 1839, Mr A. Croall. 
Lininlea, Gronov. Linnsea. 
Br.sp.l. F. 1 . 
L. borealis Gronov. Two-flowered Linnsea. H. 157, B. 
141. — F. May, Augt. P. 
This sweetest and loveliest of our native flowers, esteemed 
alike for its beauty and its rarity, and the association of its 
name with the immortal Swede, grows in considerable abun- 
dance on mossy rocks, at the base of Craig Maid, Glen Dole, 
a little below the Falls on the White Water, among scat- 
tered old birch trees. 
Gathered in flower by Mr Brand and Dr Barry , at the 
very edge of the precipice overhanging the south side of the 
White Water, growing among short Vaccina, Prof. Graham. 
On the north-east corner of Mouroman Moor, not far from 
