PLANTS OF THE KENMUIR DISTRICT. 1 5 



The crack-willow (S. fragilis) may also be mentioned here as 

 being one of the characteristic trees of this locality. One or two 

 fine specimens of this graceful tree may be seen on the north 

 bank below Kenmuir. 



Liliace^e. 



The garlic (Allium ursinuni) is very abundant on the south 

 bank in the woods above Carmyle, and is- frequent along the 

 banks on both sides. A. vineale is mentioned in Kennedy as 

 growing around Carmyle, but I have never found it in the locality. 



Scilla nutans, the wild hyacinth, is, as I have already re- 

 marked, abundant in the woods. The white-flowered variety has 

 been noted at Kenmuir. 



CYPERACEiE. 



Carex pendula, the largest of the British sedges, and one of 

 the rarer ones in Clydesdale, grows at the Marriage Well, and 

 also on the south bank opposite Kenmuir. 



C. acuta. — A fine bed of this extremely graceful and rather 

 uncommon species grows in the stream near the edge, on the 

 north side, about half-way between Kenmuir Bank and Carmyle. 



C. hirta. — There is a large bed of this species on the marshy 

 ground beside the Marriage Well. 



GRAMINEiE. 



Of the many beautiful sylvan grasses which adorn the woods 

 around Carmyle, perhaps the most attractive is the false brome 

 (Brachypodium sylvaticuni) which grows in profusion on the 

 shady banks below Kenmuir. The false oat (Arrhenatherum 

 avenaceum) is exceedingly abundant on both sides of the river, 

 and was formerly one of the characteristic plants of Kenmuir 

 Wood. Of the larger grasses, perhaps the three most striking 

 are the common reed-grass (Digraphis arundinaced) and the two 

 large fescues (Festuca elatior and F. gigantea). 



I cannot at present enter in detail into the cryptogamic flora of 

 this district. There is a fair variety of the commoner mosses, 

 and one or two interesting species of the larger fungi have been 

 noted at excursions of the Society. I may mention that the 

 district is remarkably lacking in ferns. Beyond one or two 

 miserable stunted specimens of the common male fern, I have 

 never found any growing on these banks. 



