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the river. The seed may possibly have been originally deposited 

 in the bed of the river with ballast. 



C. arvense L. — Near Kilspindie and Invergowrie. 



Melilotus officinalis Willd. — Occasionally to be met with in 

 hay fields and waste places, but rare, and has been noticed at 

 Seggieden, above Rossie Priory, and near Invergowrie. 



Vicia angustifolia Roth. — Not a common plant in the 

 Carse, but grows on some of the rocky knolls at the back of 

 Fingask. I have also noticed it on dry stony ground near Mill- 

 field, between Invergowrie and Longforgan. 



Primus communis Huds. — Under this head are now included 

 the three following varieties, which were formerly considered to 

 be distinct species : — 1. P. domestica L. — Not common, but found 

 in some very old hedgerows about Elcho. 2. P. insititia L. — 

 This, and the former, I first discovered some years ago. It also 

 may be considered as a rare shrub in the Carse, and I am not 

 even aware that it has been found in other parts of the county; 

 several bushes of it occur along the water side, opposite Seggie- 

 den ; it also grows with the former in the old hedgerows about 

 Elcho. 3. P. spinosa L. — Common. 



Aremonia agrimonioides Neck. — My reasons for noticing this 

 plant is not only because it is common in many parts of the Carse, 

 but because, though perhaps not a native, it has been so long and 

 is so ivell established not only in the Carse of Gowrie but also 

 about Scone and the neighbourhood of Perth, that I think it 

 should ere this have found a place in the British lists, being 

 quite as worthy or more so than many others. In Hooker's 

 Students' 1 Flora it is designated as a garden escape, and in the 

 London catalogue it is stigmatised as an alien and a waif. It is, I 

 believe, a native of Italy, and may possibly have been brought 

 from thence as a garden plant — which I should think it was no 

 longer — and is surely as worthy of being recorded as the 

 vagrant Mimulus luteus. The Aremonia I have gathered more 

 than forty years ago near Rait, where it grows still. It abounds 

 on some banks and woody places about Kinfauns, and is also 

 found at Seggieden, Kilspindie, Fingask, and other places. 



Epilobium angustifolium L. — Growing, evidently in a wild 

 state, on some almost inaccessible rocks in the Den of the 

 Godens, above Pitroddie. 



Lythrum salicaria L. — Sparingly in the marsh below 

 Elcho. 



Sedum villosum L. — On some damp rocks in an old quarry 



