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slabs of rock. In several oilier places, too, this (ern was 

 plentiful. On the wet hillsides in the shade of the birches 

 the exquisite hay scented Lastvca oemnla was growing. 



It was very interesting to note the effect of altitude on 

 the size of the ferns, as you ascended the mountains the 

 ferns became dwarfed in size in the same way as other 

 plants. Polypodimn phe^optevis and Lastvea montana were 

 species which illustrated this effect very markedly. At a 

 high altitude the specimens were often quite tiny. 



Near Portree Ophioglossum vidgatum and Boivychium 

 Lttnaria grow plentifully, but they had died down when I 

 was there. Returning to Dingwall I came across a lane 

 bordered with high hedges and very shady. Along the 

 hedgebanks Polypodium vulgare was growing in great 

 profusion, some of the fronds being of magnificent size. 



My travels in Scotland were now rapidly drawing to a 

 close, and there only remain two other ramables to 

 specially recall. One was a walk from Dunkeld along 

 the valley of the Tay. Here Polypodium dvyoptevis was 

 most lovely. There was a veritable carpet of fronds right 

 through the birch woods, and it was even growing out of 

 the crevices of the stone dykes along the waysides. The 

 other ramble was along the cliffs between Aberdeen and 

 Stonehaven. Here I found Asplenium mavinum, and was 

 fortunate enough to secure a pleasing little variety of this 

 species which at present is under Mr. Druery's care. 

 The pinnae are very deeply serrated on the upper edge, 

 whilst the lower edge curves upwards from the rachis. It 

 is a very small plant, but it gives promise of developing 

 into an interesting sport.* 



■•' This plant is as yet too small to determine the species with 

 certainty. It is. however, not marinum, but may be a form of 

 A. lanccolatum^ which, might be expected to turn up in such a locality. 

 In the young state it promises to be a very foliose and pretty variety, 

 but, as in other ca;es, we must "Wait and see." Apart from 

 Mr. Roberts' Scotch rambles, we may remind our members that it 

 was he who found P. v. Kohcrtsii as a tiny plant on a dry hedge bank 



