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their having spent a portion of their time with Mr. Stewart, enjoying 

 the pleasures of grouse-shooting. The result of their sport was found 

 to be by no means unacceptable at the end of the day's work. 



Among the plants met with, I may notice Epilobium angustifoliura, 

 which grew in great profusion and beauty, Hypericum Androsaeraum, 

 a common plant in all our western counties, Hieracium umbellatum. 

 Convolvulus Soldanella and sepium, Atriplex laciniata, rosea and an- 

 gustifolia, Sinapis monensis, Helosciadium nodiflorum, both in a large 

 erect, and in a small creeping form, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Vicia syl- 

 vatica, Lolium temulentum and Epilobium virgatum, distinguished 

 from Epilobium tetragonum by its leaves being truly decurrent, the 

 scions from the lower part of the stem being very slender and filiform. 

 It is a species of Fries, but it does not appear to me to be well marked. 

 In salt-marshes we picked Scirpus maritimus, Blysmus rufus, CEnan- 

 the Lachenalii, a common plant in the west of Scotland and usually 

 mistaken for (E. pimpinelloides, from which it is distinguished by its 

 elongated, slender, fusiform and subcylindrical tubers, gradually en- 

 larging from the base of the stem, and having no distinct pedicle, as 

 well as by its fruit being broader than the calyx and contracted at the 

 base :* Dr. M'Donald mentioned his having found Linnaja borealis 

 near Kildalloig. 



At Southend the shore and the inland party met, and the latter 

 were so satisfied with their day's sport and with the comfort of Mr. 

 Mackay's inn, as well as with the prospect of a good dinner, that they 

 declined proceeding further for the night. The movement party was 

 thus reduced to three, who visited the sandy shores in the neighbour- 

 hood and walked on to the lighthouse at the Mull. On the sands at 

 Southend, Convolvulus Soldanella, Raphanus maritimus, Sinapis mo- 

 nensis, Sagina maritima and Reseda Luteola were foimd in profusion. 

 The old church at Keill and the ruins of the castle of Dunlavader at- 

 tracted attention. Near an old church-yard on the road-side, Hyos- 

 cyamus niger was met with, and near Carskay, Geranium pratense 

 was picked. The rocks in the vicinity have been hollowed out into 

 caves, some of them of great size and depth. Similar caves had been 

 noticed in the rocks along the shore from Campbelton to Southend, 

 and one of them is designated the cave of St. Kiavan, from some le- 

 gend connected with that saint. 



August 14th. — Having procured a cart for our baggage, the most 



* For an account of tlie British species of CEnanthe, see paper by Mr. H C. Wat- 

 son, in the ' Phytologist,' vol. ii. p. 11. 



