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Art. C. — Additions to the Phcdiiogamic Flora of ten miles round 

 Edinburgh. By Thomas Edmonston, Esq. 



Baltasoundj Shetland Islands, 



November 1, 1842. 

 Sir, 



In the course of my botanising this season through the 

 peculiarly rich and interesting district within ten miles of Edinburgh, 

 having observed several plants not noted in the last List of the Flora 

 of that district, I beg to hand you the catalogue of them, with habitats 

 &c. ; and also notes on a few of the rarer or more interesting species 

 previously observed. If you should consider this trifling contribution 

 to our knowledge of local Botany worthy of insertion in your valua- 

 ble periodical, it is at your service. 



I am. Sir, 



Your very obedient Servant, 



Thos. Edmonston. 

 To the Editor of ' The Phytologist.' 



Bidens cernua, (3. radiata. Lochend. 



Bromus velutinus. Some dwarf specimens of the variety (3. occur- 

 red near Musselburgh. 



Callitriche platycarpa. Compensation pond on the Pentland hills, 

 Lochend and Duddingston Lochs, &c. Afterwards observed in the 

 former station by Mr. Babington, who assures me it is the true plant. 

 It has not, I think, been previously noticed out of England. 



Carex divisa. Pentland hills, scarce. 



„ incurva. Musselburgh and Dalmeney. I also, late in the 

 season, picked what I believe was this plant near St. David's, on the 

 Fife side of the Firth, but it was too far gone to be identified proper- 

 ly. This species is probably often passed over as C. arenaria. 



Cerastium holosteoides. The C. triviale, var. &. Jtolosteoides, of the 

 Edinburgh Botanical Society's Catalogue (2nd edit.) seems a distinct 

 plant, as I shall soon endeavour to prove. The Edinburgh specimens 

 agree with some from Kinfauns in Perthshire, exhibited at the Bota- 

 nical Society last winter. Dalkeith. 



Cerastium (tomentosum ? ). Hills behind Aberdour. 



Dianthus glaucus, Linn. (D. deltoides, $. glaucus^ Hook.) Left 

 unmarked in the Edinburgh Catalogue, but abundant in the King's 

 Park. 1 should be disposed to consider it distinct. 



Festuca ovina, e. vivipara. Pentland hills, above Collinton. It 



