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Mr Syiiiini;t(ni Oricve on the 



If any member of this Society desires a pleasant and 

 retired place to spend a holiday, he should go to Colonsay, 

 It has the advantage of being easily accessible, being only 

 ten hours by steamer from Greenock, and as you sail during 

 the night, both going and returning, you may go to bed 

 before the steamer starts and only rise and dress to go 

 ashore. No doubt the mal de mer may take away some of 

 the pleasure, but it is not so bad after all ; and if one prefers 

 to enjoy the scenery in the early morning as you approach 

 the southern shore of Islay, and then proceed through the 

 sound, they will feel amply repaid for getting up a little 

 earlier than usual. 



The accommodation at Scallasaig is very good for such an 

 out of the way situation, the fare homely, and the charges 

 moderate. There are fine stretches of sandy beach for sea- 

 bathing ; and visitors are permitted to roam almost all over 

 the islands, which abound in objects of interest to all 

 scientifically inclined. The caves on the west are well 

 worth a visit, and the cliffs, rising in perpendicular preci- 

 pices from the sea, are very grand. Near Scallasaig there 

 is a Druid's circle, and on the top of eminences all over the 

 islands are the sites of duns or ancient Scottish forts, and 

 the remains of at least one Danish fortification is on Oransay. 

 The ecclesiastical ruins on the same Island are justly 

 celebrated, and it is there the finest stone cross in the West 

 of Scotland is to be found. It may not be so well known 

 that these ruins should have special interest to the inhabi- 

 tants of Edinburgh, as this abbey was a dependency of the 

 Abbey of Holyrood. 



If any one wishes retirement and food for quiet study, 

 permit me to assure them they will find in Colonsay an 

 earthly paradise. 



Catalogue of Colonsay Plants, collected Jidy 1879, and Arranged 

 and Named accordifig to the London Catalogue. 



RaNUNCDLACEjE, 1. 



Thalictnim minus, vav. niaritimum. 



Do. do. var. flexuosum. 



Both found growing on sandy 



banks on shore of Kiloran Bay. 

 Ranunculus Planiniula. Coniniou. 



acris. 



repens. 

 C'altha paluslris. 



Ntmph^ace^, 3. 

 Nynipha'a alba. Loch Fada. 



Papavehace^, 4. 

 Papaver Argenioue. Cultivated field, 

 Scallasaig. 



CHUCIFERiE, 5. 



Sinapis arveusis. 



