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class as the Valerian above mentioned, “ not wild in Scotland, so 
far as known to us.” Several plants of Malva sylvestris were 
seen in gardens, or where they had been certainly planted; but 
a single example of any wild Mallow never occurred to us in 
Scotland. We know that our common Mallows, viz. M. sylves- 
tris, M. moschata, and M. rotundifolia, are registered as the 
_ spontaneous productions of the country about Edinburgh, Glas- 
gow, and Aberdeen; but we did not see any of them except 
those above mentioned, and they were evidently stragglers, if 
not the descendants of the formerly-cultivated individuals. Our 
time at Edinburgh was very short; but large and striking plants, 
like those of the Malvaceous Order, could not have been passed 
by unnoticed, if they existed there as they, or two of them at 
' least, do about every town and village in the south of England. 
In Perthshire we ignore the Mallows entirely, because we believe 
Nature ignores them; and in reference to the Valerian of Men- 
teith, we may bring in the verdict which a Scotch jury is allowed 
to give when the evidence is conflicting or unsatisfactory, viz. that 
the claims of Valeriana pyrenaica, as a wild plant in Scotland, 
are “not proven” by the evidence which we have to offer. In 
a meadow adjoining one of the cottages at Port Menteith fine 
specimens of Sedum Telephium were collected. This plant is pro- 
bably wild, though it is often kept in cottage-gardens: its vul- 
nerary or sanative virtues are perpetuated in its vernacular name, 
“ Tive-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 
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