276 NATURE NOTES. 
Viola tricolor (Wild Pansy) with its sprawling green stem 
and beautifully blue and yellow tinted flowers. 
On the south and west sides, particularly about the crags 
and quarries and banks of the stream, a number of not very 
common plants are still to be found, and seasonal visits to 
these localities are always productive of pleasure at least to 
the botanist. 
One notices in early spring the Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser 
Celandine) peeping from some sunny corner showing its 
shiny yellow petals, and that curious dicecious euphorbia 
Mercurialis perennis (Dog’s Mercury) with its slender delicate 
male plants, and more robust females. Ina marsh near the 
quarries a few specimens of Cardamime pratensis (Cuckoo 
flower) may be procured, but it is fast disappearing from a 
haunt in which, a few years ago, it grew in great profusion. 
Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort) and Stellaria graminex 
(Lesser Stitchwort) are abundant with their snowy white 
flowers. The Ranunculus aquatilis (White water Buttercup) 
used to be common in the stream, but only a few sickly 
specimens remain in a small lade to the east of the stone 
bridge across the stream. Lpilobium hirsutum (the Great 
Willow herb), and Petusites vulgaris (Butterbur) still flourish 
in and on the banks of the stream, while a few specimens 
of Spirea Ulmaria (Meadowsweet) are to be found. 
It is in the months of June and July, on the southern 
side of the hill, that the not common Dianthus deltoides 
(Maiden Pink), with its delicate tinted rosy corollas, is found 
in bloom; here also, Lychnis Viscaria (Red German Catchfly) 
with its erect stem coated immediately below the nodes 
with a gummy exudation, may be met with, though it is 
decidedly local in its distribution. Helianthemwm vulgare 
(Rock Rose) is also found among the rocks, where its like- 
ness to the common buttercup has probably caused it to be 
overlooked. Hypericum perforatum (common perforated 
St John’s Wort) is met with in the hollows of some of the 
unused quarries. Growing not abundantly, yet fairly 
conspicuous from the surroundings are a few specimens of 
Sanicula ewropwa (Wood Sanicle) with its panicled heads of 
dull white flowers. JAMES FINLAYSON. 
