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attractive title. Those who have most experience in mountain 

 botanizing, they who have toiled up Snowdon, Helvellyn, Benledij 

 etc., know best how barren in results such long wearisome ac- 

 clivities generally are. 



Only a few interesting plants are reported in this paper, none of 

 great rarity, the chief of which follow : — Hypericum Androsce- 

 mum (will the author be so obliging as to tell us at what ele- 

 vation or altitude he observed this fine species?); Viburnum 

 Opulus, Osmunda regalis, Habenaria bifolia, Lastrea spinulosa, 

 Rubus saxatilis, Asplenium viride, Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, 

 Oxyrla reniformis, Hypnum proliferum, H. undulatum, Br yum 

 ligulatum, Huokeria lucens, Neckera crispa, etc. 



Further up the mountain, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, Saxi- 

 fraga aizoides, S. stellaris, Cochlearia officinalis, and Cerastium 

 alpinum were abundant. Cystopteris fragilis and Sibbaldia pro- 

 cumbeus are a very respectable rear-guard to the foregoing array 

 of Ben Lomond vegetation. 



" The Second Botanical Ramble of a City Naturalist^^ embodies 

 notices of plants growing between Rutherglen and Dalmarrock 

 bridges — historical and classical ground to the brave men of the 

 " western metropolis." " The Flora of Lanark is a rich and rare 

 one : many an undiscovered floral gem lurks in these glens and 

 by these mountain-streams, awaiting tlie coming botanist, who 

 will reveal the beauties concealed in this beautiful region^ de- 

 formed though it be by the industrial progress of modern times. 

 Only three short years ago, two Geums, G. rivale and G. urba- 

 num, with Lychnis dioica, L. Flos-cuculij Galium saxatile, G. cru- 

 ciatum, Doronicum Pardalianches, etc., have been forced to quit 

 their quarters, or what may be worse, to succumb to the con- 

 tinual progress of brick buildings." 



We are pleased to hear that near Rutherglen still grows Vinca 

 minor, a white variety, not common in the south of our island ; 

 also Pyrola minor. Campanula latifolia, Humulus Lupulus, Ribes 

 alpinum. Here we should rather wonder to find the two last- 

 named in juxtaposition; are they native or even spontaneous at 

 Rutherglen ? 



"Botanical Habitats," p. 18i, is a selection of localities taken 

 from a popular description of the plants of Lanarkshire, etc., by 

 the Rev. W. Patrick, published in 1831. 



The author of this paper asks if the editor of the MS. 



