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FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
the side of the Arbroath road, Mr J. Cruickshank. Kin- 
naird Woods, Rev. James Burns. It has also been found 
in the Woods of Inglismaldie, on both sides of the Fetter- 
cairn road, about a furlong from the bridge on the Kincar- 
dine side of the Esk, by Messrs Croall, Kerr , Cruikshank , 
and M‘ Far lane. In this station it was first discovered in 
1795 by Prof. Beattie , the author of the Minstrel. 
Linnaeus himself, we are told, when he gathered this plant 
at Lyksele in May 1732, chose it to commemorate his name. 
Former botanists had known it under the name of Campa- 
nula serpyllifolia, but he soon found it to be a new genus, 
and his name was given to it by his friend Gronovius. 
“ Linnaeus,” says Smith, “ found a resemblance of his own 
early fate in the history of ‘ this little northern plant, long 
overlooked, depressed, abject, flowering early ” and he 
adds, “more honoured in the name than any other: few 
could have been better chosen ; and the progress of prac- 
tical botany seems to be marked by the more frequent dis- 
covery of the Linnaea.” 
Ord. XLIIL— RUBIACE^E, Juss. 
Gen. Br. 4. F. 3. Sp. and Br. 25. F. 17. 
Galium, L. Bedstraw. 
Br. sp. and v. 20. F. 15. 
G. verum, L. Yellow Bedstraw. H. 158, B. 141. — F. 
June, Augt. P. 
One of our commonest summer flowers, extending from 
the sea-shores to the summits of the mountains. Its fra- 
grance is very pleasing, strongly resembling that of honey. 
G. cruciatum , L. Cross-wort. H. 159, B. 142. — F. 
May, June. P. 
Banks, Ninewells. Banks of Bullion Burn, near Inver- 
gowrie. Near the Reeky Linn, and other parts of the Den 
of Airlie. Plentiful on the waysides between Meigle and 
Alyth, in the neighbouring county of Perth. 
Moors above and below the Bridge of Dun, common, Mr 
A. Croall. Roadside near the Bridge of Dun, and Montrose 
road near Brechin, Mr G. M'Farlane. 
