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Henricus, and on old walls in the village Geranium lucidum was 

 extremely hixuriant and plentiful, and Arabis hirsuta was fre- 

 quently to be seen. I met with no plants after leaving Little 

 Stainforth, exce})t some of those already mentioned ; in fact, I 

 had no time to look for any, being obliged to hurry on to Settle, 

 ■where my friend was waiting for me. We left Settle for Lan- 

 caster in the afternoon, and arrived at Preston in the evening, 

 and thus ended our pleasant excursion. I have no doubt I missed 

 many plants through lack of time to look for them, and in fact 

 I saw a great variety of the Carex family during the journey, but 

 did not stay to examine them. 

 Preston, June, 1862. 



PLANTS OF MONCEIEFFE HILL. 



By John Sim. 



In a former number of the ' Phytologist,' I recorded a ramble 

 to the hill of Moncriefte in search of wild flowers. I again on 

 the 4th of June this year, along with a young friend, paid it a 

 second visit; but the day being most unpropitious, boisterous, 

 wet, and cold, precluded us from any extended research among 

 its rarities. We had, however, the good fortune to obtain one 

 rarity, and several examples of other plants of very unfrequent 

 occurrence. On arriving by rail at Bridge of Earn Station, 

 we wended our way by the fine carriage road through the planta- 

 tions and pleasure grounds of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe until we 

 arrived at the foot of the wooded hill of Moncrieffe. In passing 

 along its southern side, we observed in abundance very luxuriant 

 forms of Anchusa sempervirens, in full bloom; this plant is a 

 perfect beauty ; no one by seeing its dry and blackened form in 

 the herbarium could form the least idea of its handsome figure 

 and azure blossoms while adorning the sides and slopes of Stenton 

 Kocks and Moncrieffe Hill; in the latter place it is abundant, 

 in the former not so. Patiently we waited for a " fair blink," 

 but no, "the wind blew as 'twad blawn its last, the rattlin' 

 showers rose on the blast -j" we took shelter under the shade of 

 an aged tree, and after waiting in vain for fair weather, collected, 

 close by, several specimens of Doronicum Pardalianches and D. 

 plantagineum, the latter almost out of flower. We observed 



