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"Live-Long,"* which may have been conferred on it because of 

 its life-prolonging properties. As our intention was to start the 

 next day for Killin, we made the best of our way homewards by 

 the road, in order to rest ourselves,, and prepare for a longer 

 walk than any of our previous walks since leaving Edinburgh. 



One of the last and pleasantest walks we had about this town 

 was to a place not half a mile below the bridge of Callander, 

 called the Camp. A camp it may well have been in the olden 

 times : its rampart and fosse still exist as memorials of a warlike 

 age, but the interior is like a lawn. Many plants grow here, 

 though we only noticed the following : Geranium sylvaticum, as 

 usual very fine; Hieracium prenanthoides, not yet in flower; and 

 Meconopsis cambrica. We were delighted to recognize this old 

 acquaintance, which we had observed in the days of " auld lang 

 syne/' when we ran about the Braes of Cowie, Feteresso, and 

 Dunnottar, and in our simplicity did not know that this rare 

 plant was not as common as the White Saxifrage (S. granulata) 

 or the Red Campion. In the camp at Callander it was growing 

 at the very bottom of the fosse (ditch) . We would not venture 

 to say that it is what is generally understood by " truly wild," 

 but it was certainly naturalized and well established. We have 

 seen it in Whales, where it certainly is wild, and it is probably so 

 in Devon and Cornwall. Why not in Scotland? The evidence 

 is not entirely satisfactory. 



* A correspondent suggests that this title is rather indicative of the vitality of 

 the plant itself, than of its ability to confer longevity on those who employ it as a 

 specific. We have heard of its repute either as a vulnerary or a medicinal herb. 



