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precipice above, lie scattered in wild confusion over the strand. 

 Picking my way through these, 1 observed on a raoist ledge in 

 the rock, Cochlearia officinalis and Samolus Valerandi. Had 

 time permitted I should doubtless have found some good things 

 here ; as it was, I left the spot almost entirely unexplored. 



This bold promontory, called St. Bees' Head, is subject to 

 dense mists, which come on suddenly from the sea, and in which 

 if the stranger get suddenly enveloped, he had better remain sta- 

 tionary until it clears away, as the effect is most bewildering if 

 any attempt is made to proceed. And now I leave the pedes- 

 trian of firm nerve and cool determination to scale the West- 

 moreland heights, with the caution to beware of mists and preci- 

 pices, merely informing him that he may pick np Empetrum 

 nigrum on Wastdale Screes, and in the descent from Scafell Pike 

 by Mickledore, Thalictrum alpinum, whilst on the summit of 

 Black Sail abundance of Alchemilla alpina is there to welcome 

 him after a somewhat toilsome ascent. 



BOTANICAL EAMBLES IN JUNE, 1859. 



By John Sim, A.B.S.Ed. 



Ramble I. — To Hill of Moncrieffe. 



Early about the middle of June, 1859, I left Perth by rail 

 for the Bridge of Earn village, four miles S.S.E. of the " Fair 

 City ;" on arriving at the station (as determined by previous ar- 

 rangement), I met with one of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe's gar- 

 deners, who, though very little acquainted with botany, kindly 

 conveyed me to the Loch of Moncrieffe, a small sheet of water 

 near the left bank of the Earn, and about a mile to the south- 

 ward of Moncrieffe Hill. Arrived at the lake, the gardener took 

 a boat and soon procured for me a fine specimen of that queen of 

 aquatics, Nymphcea alba ; the petiole and peduncle were each six 

 feet in length. A number of leaves of Nuphar pumila floated on 

 the loch, but no flowers. The Polygonum amphibium was thickly 

 distributed over its entire area, and formed an attractive and 

 pleasing feature of the scene. The margin of this little lake was 

 thickly and extensively fringed with the tall stems of Glyceria 

 aquatica just coming into flower; here and there were to be seen 



