LIST OF PLANTS. 



central and eastern Highlands, Ben-Lawers, Braemar, or 

 Clova. But at this he will have no cause to repine when, he 

 finds himself led into some of the most magnificent mountain 

 scenery in Britain. It has bean said that no scenery in 

 Scotland but that of Coruisk in Skye, and that of Glencoe, 

 can rival the grandeur of Glen Sannox; certainly neither the 

 Perthshire Highlands nor the English lake country can 

 shew anything so wildly sublime as the precipices and 

 aiguilles of rifted granite which tower around the heads of 

 those Arran glens. 



LIST OF PLANTS. 



110. The following list comprises only the rarer plants of 

 Arran, including under this title both those which, though 

 frequent in the west of Scotland, are seldom found in other 

 parts of the country, and those which, while abundant in 

 other parts of Britain, may appear somewhat uncommon to 

 one who knows only the botany of the west coast. It often 

 becomes difficult to draw the line, and to say what plants 

 should be omitted and what inserted. We cannot hope to 

 have decided always judiciously; when we have erred, it has 

 no doubt been in admitting plants which the practised 

 botanist will think too common to be placed in any but an 

 exhaustive list. 



All the species of the fern tribe known to exist in the 

 island have been inserted, and their localities given in full 

 detail; partly because they bear a larger proportion than 

 usual to the flora of Arraii, and partly for the sake of those 

 who may take a special interest in them, or wish to procure 

 specimens for cultivation. 



The genera are arranged according to the natural orders, 

 and the names those which appear in Hooker and Arnott's 

 British Flora. 



Our best thanks are due to Professor J. Hutton Balfour of 



