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and alter ni folium, while Potamogeton perfoliatus was 

 also plentiful. In the ditches running up from the 

 loch were fine plants of Veronica Anagallis, which 

 species appears to take the place here of V. Becca- 

 bunga and to be as luxuriant as Mr. Thomas Scott 

 lately found it to be in Coll. 



In the marshy flats around, there were growing, 



more or less plentifully, such plants as Potentilla 



Comarum, Hippuris vulgaris, Menyanthes trifoliata, 



Scirpus Tabernazmontani, S. maritimus, and Glyceria 



fluitans. 



Approaching Castle Bay from Tangusdale Loch, we 

 pass through a stretch of wet meadow-land clothed 

 in radiant colouring, the more sober yellows and 

 whites being relieved by the deep-tinged heads of 

 Orchis latifolia. These exhibited, in different speci- 

 mens, greater extremes of purple and brick-red than 

 we remember previously to have seen in plants 

 growing together. 



In the rocky knolls at Castle Bay itself it was in- 

 teresting to find the ripe capsules of the Vernal Squill 

 (Scilla verna) ; and Ave were favoured by the Swedish 

 engineer of the Normal Company with pressed speci- 

 mens, gathered by him in flower some weeks earlier. 

 This plant, though it has a distribution from 

 Cornwall to the Shetland Isles, where Mr. R. Turner 

 found it in plenty, is restricted to particular localities, 

 and is stated in the 8th edition of the London Cata- 

 logue to have been met with in 26 vice-counties only, 

 our record of it from the Hebrides, however, raising 

 the number to 27. 



As we climb the grassy steeps behind the town, 

 where the exposure is towards the south, flowers 

 are abundant in quantity and variety — Erythrcea, 

 Plantago, Anthyllis, Centaurea, Linum, Thymus, 

 Lotus, Poly gala, Daucus, Bartsia, Rhinanthus, Spiraea, 

 &c— all, at the time, suffering from the drought of 

 last summer. Among grasses, of which there are 

 many, that which perhaps most readily claims 

 attention is Kozleria cristata, growing as plentifully 



