294 CASTANEA vuLCxARis. [Octobcr, 



cupies a similar position here in the shaded crevices of rocks, 

 associated with the common Bartramia ithyphylla. 



Bryum alpinum, with its bright-tinted foliage in dense patches 

 covering the margins of rocky surfaces, in partial fruit. Cynodon- 

 tium Bruntonii, in fruit, covers the face of a rock iu isolated 

 patches; this Moss is found in various other stations over the 

 county in similar situations. 



Ferns, Hepaticse, and Lichens presented nothing new or rare 

 through the course of our hurried search. The Scotch mist was 

 passing under a rapid high development when we left off our ex- 

 plorations and stood for the summit of the Law. Aaiong the foliage 

 of Polyirichum formosum, where the tempest howled as Boreas 

 blew his blast, we obtained a shaded view to the west of the junc- 

 tion of the Earn with the Tay, which rolled down before us; stretch- 

 ing out towards the east until it was lost in the ocean ; the flat 

 expanse of the Carse of Gowrie lay before us. Extending to the 

 east were clustered together the town and shipping of Dundee, 

 the mart of trade and population, enclosed with the hills of 

 Sidlaw and the Grampians. Norman's Law is a district highly 

 interesting to the archaeologist, upon which I will not enter, 

 simply referring to the term ' Law ' given to so nfany of the 

 lofty eminences of this county, as referring to a spot where 

 lies all that remains to us of Fife's early inhabitants to unravel 

 the past ages of an undescribed history. Norman's Law forms 

 a turret on the range of the Ochils (?) which extends by the north 

 side of the river, and is still interesting to the poet, the painter, 

 and the philosopher, as it was to Fife's early inhabitants when 

 living, and sacred by the ashes of the ancient tomb aodtj^cuvft 

 when dead. .z '>ih -ymm 'i0f3 m^idi 



■ il riov/i _ijgyd3 ia^rg sdi'' faalifio qH 



'•'^' " ' ■' nsliiioO^ offt nl 



CASTANEA VULGAKIS. '8^^ ^ haB o'ln^jf^ r- 



i;)isixi/ivi t(j )vrtj;fL ^7 J ^ m ^duob on bRi, 



■ ^ , I he Common Chesinut Iree. 



In a recent number of the ' Phytologist,' S. B. asks if he should 

 place a specimen of the above in his herbarium of British 

 plants. He is hereby informed that he may safely do so. 



Mr. Babington, our greatest living authority on such subjects, 

 enters it in his ' Manual,' with the remark, that it " is a doubtful 

 native ;" therefore it should have, as jurists will say, the benclit of 



