Native Plants round Dalhousie, 



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housie Castle, under thorns at 

 Arniston, and beech-trees at Mel- 

 ville Castle. I have never been 

 able to cultivate it, although I 

 made frequent attempts ; having 

 also sown ripe seeds, but never 

 saw it appear the second year after 

 planting. My friend Mr. James 

 Walker, however, gardener at 

 Melville Castle, has succeeded in 

 transplanting a patch of it, by 

 removing with it a large portion 

 of earth, and of course part of the 

 root to which it was attached; he 

 has planted it in a border among 

 rhododendrons, where it has come 

 up and flowered for several years. 



Cardamine amara, 



Hesperis matronalis, 



Geranium sylvaticum, 



Malva moschata, 



Vicia sylvatica, 



Hypericum hirsutum, 



Leontodon palustre, 



Hieracium aurantiacum, 



— sabaudum, 

 Cnicus eriophorus, 



Scarcely indigenous, but found 

 abundantly on the banks of the 

 north Esk, below Melville Castle. 



Eupatorium cannabinum, 



Solidago virgaurea, 



Doronicum pardalianehes, 



Anthemis arvensis, 



— cotula, 

 Gymnadenia eonopsea, 

 Habenaria viridis, 



— bifolia, 

 Neottia nidus-avis, 

 This rare plant is found occasionally 

 in the woods about the banks of 

 the Esk, but by no means abund- 

 antly. I am not aware that it has 

 been taken notice of, but it ap- 

 pears to me to be only a biennial, 

 or, at least, the same plant seldom 

 or ever flowers twice ; as I have 

 often seen decayed flower-stalks of 

 the preceding year, without meet- 

 ing with any fresh plant near, and 

 when the roots are taken up they 

 appear as dead as the flower stems, 

 I do not know that it has ever 

 been cultivated. When the plant 

 is taken up in flower, I have very 



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rarely seen a bud for a flower-stem 

 for the following year, as is the 

 case with most other orchideous 

 plants. It is also remarkable that 

 a plant which produces such 

 abundance of seed should be so 

 rare. I have sometimes met with 

 a single plant in flower, and after 

 looking carefully in the neighbour- 

 hood, failed in finding another. I 

 am inclined to think, that all or 

 the greater part of the plants that 

 flower, are from self-sown seed, 

 but how long after these seeds 

 vegetate, before the plant flowers, 

 I believe, is yet to be ascertained. 

 Listera ovata, 



— cordata, 

 Epipactis palustris, 



first found this scarce plant in 

 1824 in company with Mr. James 

 Hutchison, now gardener to the 

 Earl of Cassilis, at St. Margarets, 

 Isleworth, in marshy ground near 

 the Roman camp, Dalkeith, in 

 considerable abundance ; I am 

 pretty certain the first time it 

 was observed in that situation ; — - 

 although there are plenty of 

 plants, few flowers are produced, 

 partly owing, I think, to the cattle 

 eating it over when in a young 

 state. 



Carex paniculata, 



— axillaris, 



— pendula, 



— strigosa, 



— sylvatica, 



— paludosa, 



Quercus sessiliflora. E.B. 1845 

 Salix repens, 

 Populus tremula, 



— nigra, _ 

 Equisetum fluviatile, 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, 

 Botrychium lunaria, 

 Blechnum boreale, 

 Scolopendrium vulgare, 

 Aspidium fragile, 



— dilatatum, 



— aculeatum, 



— oreopteris, 

 Polypodium phegopteris, 



— dryopteris, &c. &c 



a brass mould of my own 

 leaden tallies, with accom- 



