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have been ; for the same reason, I made no particular notes 

 regarding the skeleton. 



The specimen is now being preserved by Mr. Charles Kirk, 

 and will shortly be exhibited in Kelvingrove Museum. The 

 skeleton is still under process of maceration at the Museum, 

 and will not be mounted until about the end of next year. 



Some East Fife Flowers. 



By R. 8. WiSHART, M.A. 



[Read 23rd March, 1905.] 



In 1904, Crail was the place of our choice for a holiday in 

 the first half of July, its chief recommendation being that we had 

 never been there before. Situated, as it is, within two miles of 

 the East Neuk o' Fife, Crail is a most likely centre about which 

 to find East Fife ilowers. Its general show of July blossoms is 

 rich and varied, and in any ramble about the district a large 

 number of summer favourites can readily be enumerated, but 

 what will interest the Society is to be found in any particulars 

 which show a contrast between the Crail flora and that of 

 Clydesdale. 



On walking through the quaint, old town, one of the first plants 

 to arrest the attention is Parietaria officinalis, Linn., which is 

 very abundant on the high wall to the left on emerging from the 

 town eastwards. Other wall plants include Linaria Cymbalaria, 

 Linn., Sagina maritima, Don, Asplenium Ruta-muraria, Linn., 

 and Linaria minor, Desf. The last is common on the ground 

 about the railway station and along the line. Being an annual, it 

 depends upon its seed for each successive year's flowers, but it 

 produces seed so abundantly that, when the habitat suits it, there 

 is no trouble about keeping up the supply. Although rare in 

 Clydesdale, I have observed this plant maintaining its hold on a 

 garden walk at Stepps for the past twelve years, and, notwith- 

 standing the fact that the walk is kept decently clean, the little 



