132 PLANTS OF PERTH. [^^«2/j 



Milium effusum, Lastrea dilatata, L. Oreopteris, Polypodium 

 Dryopteris, Lycopodium Selago, etc. Amoug the Mosses and 

 Lichens we picked were Blindia acuta, Orthotrichum Drum- 

 mondii, Bartramia fontana, Dicramcm sguarrosum, Physcomi- 

 trium polyphyllwn, Sticta pulmonaria in fruit, S. fidiginosa, 

 Nephroma resupinata, Alector^ia jubata, Usnea florida, and some 

 others, which we had gathered at Girpel. 



The roadsides between the Beld Craig and Moffat furnished us 

 with beautiful specimens of Ranunculus hederaceus. Geranium 

 praiense, Malva sylvestris, llontia fontana, and Achillea'^JPtar- 

 mica, along with a few other commoner plants. 



By the time we arrived at Moffat, "loveliest village of the 

 plain/' the afternoon was far spent, so that we had to hurry for 

 the railway station. Two or three of us, however, managed to 

 pay a hasty visit to the famous sulphuretted mineral well, wliich 

 is about two miles distant from the town, and partook of a 

 tumbler of its health-giving water. We left Beattock by the 

 5.20 p.m. train, and reached "Auld Reekie" about nine, all 

 fully satisfied with our pleasant ramble. 



PLANTS OF PEETH. 



Addenda and Explicatory Remarks to the Flora of Perth. 

 By John Sim."^ 



During my Botanical Rambles last summer, I had the plea- 

 sure of discovering several plants new to me in this neighbour- 

 hood, as also additional stations or localities for several of those 

 already recorded in ray Perth List. I therefore deem it proper, 

 in addition to their announcement in my Rambles, to give them 

 in an additional or supplementary form to the List already 

 published, with some explanatory remarks relative to their fre- 

 quency or rarity, and claims as indigenous plants. But let it 

 be distinctly understood, that while I unhesitatingly venture my 

 opinions, I ever hold it a rule to allow another the same privi- 

 lege of independent thought I claim to myself. 



Whatever diversity of opinion may exist among Botanists re- 

 lative to the distribution and aboriginal claim of many of our 



* See ' Phytologist,' N.s. vol. iii. p. 33. 



