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96. Carex ovalis Good., Oval-spiked Carex. Margin of loch. 



97. Cavex ripayia Curt., Great Common Carex. Margin of loch. 



Natural Order Filices — Fern Family. 



98. Asplenium septentvionale Hull, Forked Spleenwort. Arthur's 



Seat and Samson's Ribs, not now plentiful. 



99. Asplenium Ruta-muraria L., Wall-Rue. Abundant on old walls 



about Queen's Park and Duddingston. 



Natural Order Equisetaceae — Horse-tail Family. 



100. Equisetum palustre L., Marsh Horse-tail. Margin of loch, 

 common. 



[Grasses and Mosses, not included in the above list, are rather 

 plentiful in the district. About forty species of Grasses and over 

 twenty species of Mosses are given for this comparatively small 

 area in Balfour's ' Flora of Edinburgh,' though some of these are 

 no longer to be found there.] 



