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Among the plants mot with, I may notice Epilobium angustifolium, 

 which grow in groat profusion and beauty, Hypericum Androsaemuui, 

 a common plant in all our western counties, Hieracium umbellatum, 

 Convolvulus Soldanella and scpium, Atriplex laciniata, rosea, and 

 angustifolia, Sinapis monensis, Helosciadium nodiflorum both in a 

 largo ©rect and in a small creeping form, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Vicia 

 sylvatica, Lolium temulontum, and Epilobium virgatum, distinguished 

 from E. totragonum by its leaves being truly decurrent, the scions 

 from the lower part of the stem being very slender and filiform. It 

 is a species of Fries, but it does not appear to me to be well marked. 

 In salt marshes we picked Scirpus maritimus, Blysmus rufus, 

 (Enantho Lachenalii, a common plant in the West of Scotland, 

 and usually mistaken for (E. pimpinelloides, from which it is distin- 

 guished by its elongated, slender, fusiform, or subcylindrical tubers, 

 gradually enlarging from the base of the stem, and having no distinct 

 pedicle, as well as by its fruit being broader than the calyx, and 

 contracted at the base.* Dr. Mac Donald mentioned his having found 

 Limuea borealis near Kildalloig. 



At Southend the shore and the inland party met, and the latter 

 were so satisfiod with their day's sport, and with the comfort of Mrs. 

 Mac Kay's inn, as well as with the prospect of a good dinner, that 

 they declined proceeding further for the night The movement party 

 was thus reduced to three, who visitod the sandy shores in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and walked on to tho lighthouse at the Mull. On the sands 

 at Southend, Convolvulus Soldanella, Raphanus maritimus, Sinapis 

 monensis, Sagina maritima, and Reseda Luteola were found in pro- 

 fusion. The old church at Keill, and the ruins of the Castle of 

 Dunlavader, attracted attention. Near an old churchyard on the 

 roadside, Hyosciamus nigcr was met with, and near Carskay, Geranium 

 pratenso was picked. The rocks in the vicinity have been hollowed 

 out into caves, some of them of great size and depth. Similar caves 

 had been noticed in the rocks along the shore from Campbelton to 

 Southend, and one of them is designated the cave of St. Kiaran, from 

 some legend connected with that saint 



On reaching the lighthouse we were most hospitably entertained by 

 Mr. Noble and Mr. King, the superintendents, and every thing was 

 done to promote our comfort. The country around the lighthouse is 

 bare and rocky, and produces no plants of any interest The Mull is 

 well described by Macculloch as a rude hilly tract, without beauty 

 even on its sea shores. The only interest is connected with the caves 

 in the rocks to which I have alluded. In tho interior of the district 

 little is to bo seen, and it is chiefly on the shores that a botanist or 

 geologist finds materials for research. At the point of the Mull the 



■ For an account of tho British species of (Enantho, sec nancr by Mr. II. C. Watson, 

 in Tho HiytoloKist, vol. ii. p. 11. 



