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NOTES ON MID-PERTH PLANTS. 

 By J. R. Matthews, M.A. 



The following notes have been drawn up after several years' 

 investigation of the flora of Dunning district in Mid-Perth, v.-c. 88. 

 I have made constant reference to Dr. White's Flora of Perthshire. 

 In that work several species, which are regarded as introduced or 

 naturalized plants in the county, are simply referred to as having 

 been found, and are not recorded under the usual definite formula. 

 Some of these form part of the present list, and I am inclined to 

 regard most of them in this neighbourhood as " outcasts." So 

 far as I know, the plants have not been cultivated for many years 

 past in gardens in the vicinity, and as many of them have become 

 well established in natural habitats, it may be of some value to 

 have the localities more fully recorded. 



Those plants recorded for Dunning in " Lowland Earn" in the 

 Perthshire Flora are included in the list with additional notes to 

 bring the information regarding them in this district as up-to-date 

 as possible. 



Notes extracted from the Flora of Perthshire are given within 

 inverted commas, and seven species not mentioned in the Flora 

 are marked with an asterisk. 



My best thanks are due to my former tutor, Mr. Barclay, for 

 much kind assistance, and to Mr. Bennett for many valuable 

 suggestions. 



■''Anemone ranunculoides L. On the left bank of Duncrub Burn 

 below Jockslodge Bridge. Not abundant. Flowers rather smaller 

 than those of herbarium specimens I have seen from Kent and 

 South Europe. 



Aconitum Napelhis L. " Occurs as an escape in a few places 

 on the banks of the Tay and Earn." In Sawmill Wood. 



Berberis vulgaris L. Several plants in a hedge which runs 

 west from Monhook Wood to Broadleys. 



Chelidonium majus L. " A naturalized plant in hedgerows." 

 Fairly plentiful on the hedgebank by Station Road ; near Kirk- 

 lands quarry. 



Claytonia perfoliata Donn. "Escape, more or less established." 

 The dominant species of the ground vegetation in Sawmill Wood, 

 and occurring in patches for several miles down the stream which 

 flows through the wood. There seems to be no definite clue as to 

 the manner in which this species has been introduced. 

 *Oxalis comiculata L. Fairly plentiful at Duncrub. 



Medicago sativa L. " Occurs — not commonly — as a natura- 

 lized plant." On the railway bank a little south of Dunning 

 Station, and, I believe, merely as a casual. 



*Levisticum officinale Koch. Bridgend, Dunning. Introduced 

 at least sixty years ago, but now 7 growing wild. 



Comus sanguinea L. " Occurs as an escape (not planted) on 

 the right bank of the Tummel below Pitlochry." In Sawmill 

 Wood, probably introduced. 

 Journal of Botany. — Vol. 51. [June, 1913.] q 



