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ground above. Here grows the chief rarity of this dean, Melica 

 nutans, in spots ; also Carduus heterophyllus ; Enchanter's night- 

 shade in two forms, one sub-alpine such as grows in Blackburn- 

 rigg dean ; a tall bush of Viburnum Opulus (a subsequent 

 discovery of Dr Stuart), which also occurs at Stottancleugh and 

 Emmelscleugh in the vicinity ; Vicia sylvatica ; red and white Dog- 

 roses and the Burnet-rose ; Helianthemum vulgare on all the bare 

 rocks; Molinia coerulea ; Triodia decumbens ; Luzula congesta; Car ex 

 recurva, C. pilulifera, C. flava and C. laevigata ; Bromus asper, 

 Angelica sylvestris, G-eums and Daisies and Coltsfoot and Butter- 

 worts, etc. The floras of the other glens were repeated here, and 

 besides there were Chrysosplenium altemi/'olium, Cardamine syl- 

 vatica, Hieracium murorum, Sanicula JEuropea ; but not I think 

 Veronica montana or Melica nutans, which were picked up in 

 Stottancleugh. Raspberries are scarce and small fruited ; straw- 

 berries plentiful and left untouched by the birds. 



The most notable fern is Polystichum aculeatum and its form 

 lobatum, abundant and luxuriant. In a later visit, Mr Evans 

 drew out the variety Lonchitidoides from the steep rocks that rise 

 like walls on either side of the burn at the straight places. This 

 variety grows also in the North Cleugh of the Pease dean woods. 

 Allium ursinum is distributed from the middle of the wood to the 

 bottom of the ravine. The western end is obstructed, but the 

 bank can be reached by holding on by tufts of grass. Near the 

 top among birches on both sides of the ravine, I noticed Poly- 

 podium Phegopteris in some frequency ; but did not mark P. 

 Dryopteris, although it grows in this dean also, as appears by my 

 notes. 



At the outer outcome of the dean, Peziza coccinea sprinkled 

 with pretty buttons an old tree stump lying in the stream. Here 

 the Brittle fern became more frequent, and continued among the 

 detached crags in the open glen for a considerable distance up. 

 Here a prominent porphyry dike, seen on both sides, crosses the 

 ravine obliquely, and has been broken through and its encompass- 

 ing conglomerate by the debacle that clove out a passage for the 

 present diminutive stream. The fragment on the south side has 

 prevented the conglomerate from being swept away. It is crowned 

 by a bushy old mountain ash. Asplenium Trichomanes and a few 

 tufts of A. Adianfum nigrum lurk in its crevices. 



Having now reached a " lone glen of green brackens " or 

 rather of splendid ferns, this has been usually selected as a sort 



