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month later, I had no thought at first of touching either 

 arasses or ferns, as [ concluded I should have more than 

 enough to do in harvesting the phanerogamous plants; but 

 before I left Seamill and Corrie, I concluded that I had 

 better divide my attention for the remainder of my holiday 

 between the flowering plants and the G-raminece and Filices. 

 This was a fortunate conclusion, because the banks of 

 Loch Etive, a frith of the sea running far into the heart of 

 Argyllshire, founded on igneous rocks, are very rich in 

 grasses, while flowering plants are comparatively rare ; and 

 G-len Etive, with Inverliver and Glennoe, rich glens leading 

 down to Loch Etive from the south, are credited with 

 twenty-nine specimens. 



The band of limestone bounding the north side of Loch 

 Tay, in Perthshire, plunging under Ben Lawers, and rising 

 in Grlenlyon, with the granite and porphyry of the Ben, the 

 King of Perthshire Hills, with its top 4,000 feet high, 

 usually in the clouds, gave a few new specimens, as did also 

 Balyukan near Pitlochrie. But my work was virtually done 

 now. My search afterwards in the neighborhood of Eskbank, 

 Dry burgh, Abbotsford and Melrose, added indeed a few more 

 to my now somewhat unwieldy bundle of plants ; but the 

 summer flowers were over, and the autumn ones had not yet 

 to any considerable extent begun to bloom. The season was 

 in the main a favourable one for my undertaking. The spring 

 and early summer were cold and wet, and this retarded the 

 progress of vegetation, so that I got a good chance to make 

 myself acquainted with some of the later spring flowers as 

 well as the whole of the summer ones, and they were very 

 fine. I was disappointed, however, with the September 

 bloom; for it was the 19th of that month before I sailed 

 from Liverpool. So far, nothing had appeared that would 

 vie with our golden-rods and asters, the glory of our early 

 Canadian autumn. 



I could have wished to be able to compare my British 

 collection with Canadian catalogues and note what species 

 are common to both countries; but time did not allow of 



