ARGYLLSHIRE EXCURSIONS. I4I 
the party proceeded up the glen road, which, at its lower end, 
commands a fine view of Glen Finart House, with Finart Bay and 
the blue stretch of Loch Long beyond, pushing itself up between 
the picturesque lines of the Arrochar hills. On reaching the 
entrance of the glen it was found that time did not permit of its 
exploration. Among the plants found were the white and purple 
varieties of candytuft (/éeris amara, L.), the curled cress (Lepidium 
sativum, L.), plants certainly garden escapes, the small convolvulus 
(Convolvulus arvensis, L.), meadow crane’s-bill (Geranium 
bratense, L.), skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata, L.), tutsan 
(Aypericum Androsemum, L.), wild carrot (Daucus Carota, L.), 
whorled-caraway (Carum verticillatum, Koch.), great butterfly 
orchis (Habenaria chlorantha, Bab.), and black spleenwort 
(Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L.). 
The second visit was on 1st August, 1896. A small party 
landed at Ardentinny and proceeded up Glen Finart. Aymeno- 
phlyllum tunbridgense, Sm., the rarer of the filmy ferns, was the 
most interesting plant met with. The Scottish filmy fern 
(ZZ. unilaterale, Willd.), the maiden-hair spleenwort (Asplenium 
Trichomanes, L.), and the beech fern (Polypodium Phegopteris, L.) 
were also collected. The other plants seen include the round- 
leaved sundew (Dyosera rotundifolia, L.), the grass of Parnassus 
(Parnassia palustris, L.), eye-bright (Zuphrasia officinalis, L.), and 
butterwort (Pinguteula vulgaris, L.). One moss, nium 
undulatum, Hed., was noted. 
On 22nd June, 1900, the Society again visited this district. 
Landing at Ardentinny about four o’clock in the afternoon, the 
party were met by an advance guard which had started earlier in 
the day and had worked round the shore from Blairmore. The 
first object of interest from a natural history point of view was the 
horned poppy (Glaucium luteum, Scop.), growing freely in the 
hedge skirting the roadway. Though possibly an escape the 
plant has managed to establish itself securely in this sheltered 
nook. The road which traverses the glen rises from the shores of 
Loch Long to a considerable height among the hills, and thence 
descends to the shores of Loch Eck. It thus presents an exten- 
sively varied field of plant and insect life, from the peculiarly 
littoral to subalpine forms. Plants observed on this occasion 
and not already recorded were :— 
