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happily, still growing near Duddingston Loch, but 

 have long since vanished from the Hunter's Bog. 

 Many other fine plants have left their old homes, 

 such as the Wood Hyacinth and the Maiden Pink, 

 and we can only heave a sigh over their loss. It is 

 related of at least one enthusiastic botanist, who 

 lamented this sad state of matters, that he was in 

 the habit of filling his pockets with seeds of his 

 vanished favourites, and sallying forth to the Park 

 to scatter them broadcast over the heights and valleys. 

 Numbers of our commoner native plants, however, are 

 yet growing here; and the diligent searcher among the 

 nooks and crannies may be rewarded by finding even 

 some of what must now be termed the rarer kinds. 



In attempting to enumerate the plants of the 

 Craigmillar district, it will not only be necessary to 

 circumscribe somewhat the area, but those plants also 

 more commonly met with must, in a work of this kind, 

 be almost entirely left out of account. Appended to 

 this chapter will be found a list of plants which have 

 been selected as less or more characteristic of the 

 varied natural features of the district. As in many 



