12 PLANTS OF THE KENMUIR DISTRICT. 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium may he met with on the south 

 bank by anyone who cares to look for it ; and, of course, no 

 botanist ever passes a clump of golden saxifrage without looking 

 to see if this species is to be found along with the common 

 opposite-leaved one, C. oppositifolium. Although the two species 

 are so similar in habit, they are nevertheless very distinct and 

 easily recognisable, the rarer one being a much finer plant, though 

 not so showy as the other. 



UMBELL1FER/E. 



Myrrhis odorata, the sweet Cicely, occurs here and there on 

 both sides of the river, but not abundantly. 



One of the plants which seems to have suffered most by 

 the cutting down of Kenmuir Wood is the rough chervil 

 {Chcerophyllum temulentum). This was one of the most abun- 

 dant inhabitants of Kenmuir : now there is scarcely a plant of it 



left. 



Caprifoliace^e. 



Viburnum Opulus, the guelder rose. This handsome shrub is 

 common in the woods above Carmyle. Perhaps the numerous 

 visitors from the city are responsible for the absence of its flowers ; 

 at any rate they are not very often to be seen. 



Adoxa Moschatellina. — This anomalous little plant is common 

 in the shady parts of the woods. The most curious thing about 

 it is the flower-head, which consists of five flowers arranged in a 

 cube, of which the terminal one has its parts arranged in fours, 

 the others in fives. The moschatell is rather local in its distribu- 

 tion, being usually abundant enough in the places where it grows. 



RUBIACEiE. 



Of the bedstraws, Galium Mollugo is mentioned by Hopkirk 

 as growing at Carmyle in his time, but it is probably extinct now. 



G. boreale is to be found in the woods above Carmyle and on 

 the south bank opposite Daldowie, in both of which stations it 

 appears to be spreading profusely. This is probably a stranger 

 from the upper part of the Clyde, washed down by the stream. 



Asperula odorata, the woodruff, is one of the plants which has 

 suffered by the destruction of Kenmuir Wood, being now un- 

 common. It occurs sparingly in the woods on the south bank. 



