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compiled, but enough remained, either in flower or in a con- 
dition easily identified, to furnish a very interesting list, and 
to show the vegetation to be not only luxuriant but varied, 
and that it embraces a considerable number of comparatively 
rare plants, as the following short list of the more note- 
worthy ones will show :— 
Mertensia maritima (plentiful). Trifolium arvense. 
Hyoscyamus niger. Stachys arvensis, 
Solidago Virgaurea (great branching | Hypericum quadrangulum. 
spikes three feet high). Vicia sylvatica. 
Cynoglossum officinale. Lysimachia nemorum. 
Salsola Kali. Myosotis palustris, var, strigulosa. 
Reseda lutea. Circea alpina. 
_ Agrimonia EKupatoria. Erodium cicutarium, 
Eupatorium Cannabinum. Malva rotundifolia. 
_ Astragalus Hypoglottis. Parnassia palustris. 
Geranium sanguineum, Sanicula europea. 
 Plantago maritima. Trientalis europea. 
P. Coronopus. Goodyera repens. 
_ Cakile maritima. Myriophyllum spicatum. 
_ Artemisia vulgaris. 
Among grasses were noted Bromus asper, Brachypodium 
sylvaticum, Festuca gigantea, Elymus arenarius, Ammophila 
arundinacea, Triticum junceum, and Melica uniflora, 
Ferns do not seem to be very numerous, either in number 
of species or number of plants of any one species, except 
Brackens (Pteris). But there are Brackens extraordinary (!), 
covering great areas, and of immense size. Of others I noted 
Cystopteris fragilis, Asplenium Trichomanes and A. Ruta- 
- muraria, Polystichum aculeatum, and some fine specimens of 
the common Lastreas and Athyrium. 
Between the line of cliffs and the sea there is in many 
_ places a narrow strip densely covered with vegetation, includ- 
_ ing ash, hazel, bramble, burnet and dog roses, and brackens. 
_ Brambles and hazel nuts are in strong evidence, both being 
_ ripe in September. 
To speak now of the antiquities. Rosemarkie, the modern 
name of the burgh and of the parish, which also contains the 
burgh of Fortrose, was originally Rosmarkyn (ros, and marat- 
; chin, the headland of the seamen). The burgh was a place of 
_ importance as far back as the beginning of the eighth century, 
_ about which time a church is said to have been founded there 
‘ by St Boniface, an Italian (or according to some an Irish) 
