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plants of Gymnadenia or Habenaria albida, Vaccinium Viiis-idaa, 

 and plenty of Antennaria dioica and Trientalis europcea. I col- 

 lected nothing else worthy of notice, unless Polygonum viviparum 

 be considered such, of which I procured a good supply, and am 

 willing to give any botanist a specimen of it and Trientalis euro- 

 p(Ea as long as they last, upon writing to me and enclosing a penny 

 stamp to pay postage. At 8 p.m. the train left Birnam, at which 

 time I stept into the railway carriage, and in less than an hour 

 was in Perth. 



Ramble III. — To Wood of Scone. 



On the 21st of June, 1859, I went in search of the Moneses 

 to the wood of Scone, where I had been on a former occasion 

 and collected a good supply. This summer, I am sorry to state, 

 I was not so fortunate, for instead of, as I expected, finding an- 

 other locality for this rare and fragrant flower, I could only ob- 

 tain a few rather stunted specimens from the place where I found 

 it formerly. I wandered backwards and forwards in expectation 

 to find it in another station, as reported to me by a Scone gar- 

 dener, and my hopes were the more brightened as he stated that 

 it was in that place abundant. After fruitless search, until I was 

 completely fatigued, I abandoned the task of further search, and 

 turned to come home, when lo ! at my foot, under the shade of a 

 tall Scotch Fir tree, I discovered a bed, about three or four square 

 yards in extent, of what seemed to me to be a stranger not un- 

 like to the common Veronica officinalis; on a closer inspection 

 I soon discovered my mistake, and seeing two of its tiny 

 branches bearing each two delicate, drooping flowers, I at once 

 recognized it to be the lovely Linncea. 



I was overjoyed at meeting with this unexpected stranger in 

 the neighbourhood of its fair companion, Moneses grandiflora. 

 Like the Moneses, it is very sweet-scented, the odour exactly re- 

 sembling our common Spirtea Ulmaria and that of the Moneses, 

 the willow-leaved, shrubby Verbena. I am sorry I could only ob- 

 tain two small sprigs of it in blossom ; had I got a good supply I 

 should most willingly have shared with my botanical friends. 

 The same remark holds good respecting the Moneses ; I only 

 got a few specimens, and it is almost all gone. I make these 

 statements to prevent the readers of the ' Phytologist' making 

 application for a specimen of either plant. 



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