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Arundo Epigejos, but fruitlessly. I see you consider Adiantum a 

 maritime plant ; I suppose therefore it is so in the British Is- 

 lands ; but I have never known it as such, its habitats in the 

 Alps, Italy, etc., being those of Scohpendrium, — damp walls, 

 vaults, very shady and moist ruins, the spray of waterfalls, etc., 

 and in no way affecting maritime localities. J. S. M. 



Perth, ^IndJuly, 1858. 

 ... I have been at Scone Wood myself for the Aremonia 

 agi'imonioides , and brought a living supply of plants with me for 

 you. In regard to it, it is not plentiful : it is sparingly distri- 

 buted over a lineal extent of about two hundred yards (as far as I 

 observed) along the border of a walk, but under the trees, and diffi- 

 cult of detection, growing along with the Fragaria vesca, as the 

 three terminal leaflets have a great resemblance at first sight to 

 the leaves of the Strawberry, there so abundant. I however send 

 you a living specimen, root and branch. The Poteyitilla is also in 

 small quantity, — not above, I should say, six or eight plants of 

 it altogether ; and the mowers, with their scythes, have done me 

 a great injury : one fine plant in particular, sending up a great 

 many robust stems, not in flower when I observed it first ; and I 

 was to return afterwards, when it would be in blossom, and get 

 a supply. Eut how great my mortification when it was cut 

 down, and, with the grass, carried away ! I however enclose a 

 small plant for you. It was more abundant two years ago. I have 

 lately discovered three plants in this parish (Kinnoul) which I 

 never before saw growing in Scotland, viz. Linaria repens, Allium 

 oleraceuniy and Lysimachia Nummularia. John Sim. 



[Note. — The plants arrived here ia life, but the Fotentilla is now quite 

 dead, and the Aremonia is not likely to survive its companion.] 



Ty Cerrig, Llandderfel. 

 . . . The Moonwort is very fine and abundant in several places 

 around us, about one mile from this house ; I send you one of 

 the largest specimens. Hypericum Elodes, Comarum palustre, etc., 

 in the adjoining meadows. We have about here several of the 

 less common Geraniums, viz. lucidum, columbinum, etc. The 

 stone wall and bank that forms the boundary of this house is 

 prettily ornamented with Cotyledon umbilicus, Fumaria clavicu- 

 lata, Campanula rotundifolia, and the common Ferns. W. P. 



