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about a quarter of a mile, I became greatly fatigued, and made 

 my way in a sloping direction to the walk which went along 

 its southern side. I sat down, unable to proceed further : after 

 resting a little, my juvenile companion informed me that two 

 or three very large plants grew a little further up the stream, 

 but that he knew neither their name nor nature. After being 

 rested a little I proceeded some few yards further on, and my 

 companion told me he was now at the place. I looked across the 

 ravine and espied some robust plants with large leaves under 

 the trees, and requested him to descend and bring some of them, 

 as I was unable to go from sheer fatigue. I waited patiently for 

 his return, and after a delay of about a quarter of an hour my 

 companion recrossed the brook, climbed the brae, and laid the 

 following at my feet : — Doronicum'plantagineum, Pulmonaria offi- 

 cinalis, SympJiiftum officinale, the red-fiowered variety and four 

 feet in height, Valeriana pi/ixmaica, and Asperula taurina, the 

 latter in no great quantity, the others tolerably plentiful. As- 

 perula taurina is recorded in ' Babington's INIanual ' as having 

 been found in two localities in England; this is now a third one, 

 - — the Den of Murrayshall, three miles east of Perth. The beauti- 

 ful mosses Mnium hornum and M. punctatum lined the sides of 

 the Den, the former in fruit, the latter barren. I noAv wended 

 my way home ; and after rest and refreshment at my friend^s 

 domicile, arrived at No. 9, Bridge End, greatly fatigued, but 

 amply satisfied at finding so many rare and beautiful plants. 



John Sim. 



CHAPTEES ON BEITISH BOTANT. 



CHAPTER VIT.— BoTANiCAx Eiogeaphy. 



London Botanists : — Tiu'nei- Lyte, Lobel and Pena, Gerard, Pai-kinsou, Johnson, 



How, Merret. 



Johnson, the learned and gallant editor of Gerard^s 'Herbal,' 

 introduces the first name entered in the above list, thus : — " Let 

 me now at last looke home (he had previously been describing 

 foreign botanists, both ancient and modern), and see who we 

 have had who have taken pains in this kinde. The firste that 

 I finde worthy of mention is Dr. William Turner, the first of whose 



