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mimic young Harts-tongue ferns ; and where near the stream 

 with Butterwort {Pinguicula vulgaris or Parnassia palustris). The 

 flora of the peaty moors encroaches on and becomes intermingled 

 with the xerophilous plants of the conglomerate scaurs, and pro- 

 duces singular intermixtures. At spots we will meet with Wood 

 Anemone, Grass of Parnassus, Lastrea Oreopteris, the common 

 daisy, and white clover in close proximity. Then at a not over 

 high angle there are moist slopes, whose chief covering consists 

 of mosses, especially of Hypnum commutatum, H. striatum, Bar- 

 tramia fontana, B. calcarea, and Bryum pseudo-triquetrum ; of great 

 sheets of Marchantia polymorpha crowded with fruit ; and over- 

 lappings among herbage and grass of the grey papyraceous 

 Peltidea canina. The clayey spots produce dense leafy beds of 

 Tussilago Farfara ; and then there are equally spacious plots of 

 Ajuga reptans with its blue-flowered pyramidal spikes ; or fairy 

 forests of JEquisetum sylvaticum. But finer than all, and inter- 

 twining and borne up by the pendulous tree branches, or investing 

 an immense perpendicular rock-face from top to bottom, or 

 arrayed in vast flowery curtains from projecting cliffs, is the 

 Wood- vetch ( Vicia sylvatica) which flourishes in the utmost pro- 

 fusion and with the greatest luxuriance and beauty in the shady 

 recesses of these wild and shaggy dells. The flowers are much 

 more delicate in tint and finer pencilled thanwhenit grows exposed 

 to the full sun-light and smothered in its own entangling trails. 

 And then there are concavities and secondary deans crowded with 

 ferns of the genera Lastrea and Athyriicm, which there attain 

 their fullest expansion and that spiral development of fronds 

 and circular outline which no culture can reach. Nowhere are 

 there better grown Polystichum aculeatums than beneath the 

 shady rocks by the little burn-sides. 



The names of the glens are 1. Yearmip, {up represents hope), 

 2. Wideup, 3. Lingup, 4. Bladdering Cleugh, 5. Burnup. The 

 6th, Shippith or Shippath, rises in Bransly Hill, and sends off 

 its superfluous water by a different outlet from the other five. 



The first, Yearnup is a bare open ravine, that terminates in 

 the cribs of Wightman Hill. Powelshiel, an obsolete shepherd's 

 house, stood in Yearnup. Then comes in the Steel, a large hill 

 ridge, between it and No. 2, called Wideup, which is also open 

 and unclothed ; neither of these is of any interest. 



Lingup is pleasantly wide, and it is dry, and can be traversed 

 all the way up to the top, and is of great length. Its vegetation 



