HIGHLANDS OF PERTHSHIRE. 451 
A greater minstrel than the author of these neat lines notices the 
Canna in another state,— 
“Still is the Canna’s hoary beard.” 
On the banks and along the bottom of a small rill adjoining 
Mimulus luteus was well established ; it was also observed in the 
ditch by the side of the Menteith road, but not so plentiful 
as in the above-mentioned locality, the little drain through the 
meadow. 
Another very interesting walk from Callander is along the 
Comrie road, which leaves the village on the east and slants up 
the base of the hill which is crowned by Callander crags. This 
road crosses the Keltie burn, and passes through Glen Artney, 
having Ben Voirlich on the left and the Braes of Doune on the 
right. This is a very desolate tract, of great extent, but of a stern 
and inhospitable aspect. Peat-mosses, wide moors, bluff, round, 
heathery hills, and miles of very rough pasturage, comprise the 
scenery of this uninviting landscape. In this direction there is 
no cultivation visible. A very few Rowan-trees (Mountain Ash) 
skirt the Kailyards of the few dwellings of the herdsmen ; every- 
where else, in this region, trees are as rare as they are in the 
King’s Park at Edmburgh. On the Callander side of the hull, 
Habenaria bifolia and H. chlorantha were collected, the former 
in great force, the latter only sparingly ; with these, Orchis ma- 
culata and O. latifolia abounded. Of all the Orchids none was 
so plentiful and beautiful as Gymnadenia conopsea ; in an evening 
and early in the morning, the perfume of a bundle of these plants 
is exquisite. Gymnadenia albida here began to appear, but not 
so plentiful as the other above-mentioned members of this family. 
Near the Falls of Bracklin, a single specimen of Habenaria vi- 
ridis was gathered in a pasture-field; this was the sole repre- 
sentative of the species noticed about Callander ; it did not occur 
in great plenty anywhere. There occurred fewer examples of 
this Orchis than of any of the others, which are common in Scot- 
land. The variety of this genus called H. chlorantha was not very 
common ; the rest were all about equally common: only Orchis 
latifoha did not perhaps attain a vertical range equal to that of 
O. maculata and Gymnadenia conopsea. 
On the 5th we set out to walk to the Trosachs'by the west or 
lower road, which crosses the Teith about the centre of the vil- 
lage, and, leaving the road to Menteith on the left, walked along 
