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Native Plants round Dalhousie. 



do not appear to have been taken notice of by botanists, as 

 having been found in the places mentioned. 



Circaea lutetiana, 

 Veronica montana, 

 Schoenus compressus, 

 Milium effusum, 

 Melica nutans, 

 Bromus asper, 

 Plantago media, 

 Galium mollugo, 

 Pulmonaria officinalis 

 Symphytum tuberosum, 

 Campanula latifolia, 

 Solanum dulcamara, 

 Erythraea centaurea, 

 Vinca major, 

 Gentiana amarella, 



— campestris, 

 Sanicula Europaea, 

 CEnanthe crocata, 

 Sison inundatum, 

 Peucedanum Silaus, 

 Angelica sylvestris, 

 Chaerophyllum odoratum, 

 Galanthus nivalis, 



This plant is found in great abund- 

 ance at Arniston, even to the ex- 

 tent of acres being covered with it. 



Allium ursinum, 



Narthecium ossifragum, 



Luzula pilosa, 



Epilobium angustifolium, 



Daphne laureola, 



Convallaria multiflora, 

 I found several plants of this, evi- 

 dently, I think, in a wild state, in 

 an old wood on a rocky bank of 

 the S. Esk, near Dalhousie Castle, 

 where, to all appearance, it has 

 been established for a long time, 

 and where there is little chance 

 of its having escaped from any 

 garden. 



Acer pseudo-platanus, 

 — campestre, 



Adoxa moschatellina, 



Pyrola rotundifolia, 



— minor, 



This last species of Pyrola is found 

 in great abundance at the Roman 

 camp near Dalkeith, and in seve- 

 ral other places in this neighbour- 

 hood : what appears singular to 

 me,is,that I have frequently found 

 it in large patches in young plan- 

 tations from twelve to twenty 



years old, where the ground has 

 evidently been cultivated before 

 planting, and no appearance of 

 the plant growing in the unculti- 

 vated ground in the vicinity, al- 

 though the soil is exactly similar, 

 and the surface, to all appear- 

 ance, has never been disturbed. 

 A proof of this may be seen in a 

 plantation near the foot of the 

 village of Dalhousie. 



Saxifraga umbrosa, 



Arenaria trinervis, 



Sedum Telephium, 



Euphorbia exigua, 



Pyrus aucuparia, 



Spiraea salicifolia, 



Rubus saxatilis, 

 Rosa spinosissima, with red petals, 

 This is the Rosa Ciphiana of Sir 

 Robert Sibbald, first observed by 

 him growing on his own estate 

 near Edinburgh. It has been 

 found in several other places since 

 his time. From Kirkhill, about a 

 mile aboveDalhousieCastle. where 

 I believe it was first discovered by 

 Mrs. Halliday, then residing in 

 Kirkhill-House, and where it is 

 growing abundantly, I sent plants 

 of it to the Botanic Garden at 

 Edinburgh, and also to Mr. Sabine, 

 for the London Horticultural 

 Garden. It is pretty generally 

 known, that it was from the seeds 

 of a variety with reddish petals, 

 that the Messrs. Browns of Perth 

 first raised the double varieties of 

 Scotch rose, now so much and 

 justly admired; but whether their 

 variety was exactly the same as 

 this, I am unable to determine. 



Trollius Europaeus, 



Ajuga reptans, 



Betonica officinalis, 



Stachys ambigua, 



Melampyrum pratense, 



Lathraea squamaria, 

 This singular plant, certainly para- 

 sitical,grows in considerable quan- 

 tities in several places about the 

 banks of the north and south Esk. 

 It is worthy of notice that it is 

 found chiefly under elms at Dal- 



