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Glenquay Moss, Dollar. 



By Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Avion. 



In the month of June Mr. Wm. B. Boyd, Faldonside, with 

 characteristic enthusiasm, planned a botanical excursion to the 

 neighbourhood of Dollar, in which there was a well accredited 

 station for Carex irrigna, an uncommon form of the Mud Sedge, to 

 find which frequent unsuccessful efforts had already been made in 

 the near Lowland country. After a careful scrutiny of the 

 various specimens in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Edinburgh, a mid-day start was made for the North in 

 good hope that the new ground might have a prize in store. On 

 arriving at Dollar, the afternoon was spent in visiting the 

 romantic glen in which, on an almost insulated clift', Castle 

 Campbell — the Castle of Gloom — looks down upon the verdant 

 valley of "the clear winding Devon." A variety of plants, 

 such as delight in shaded glades and dripping rocks, was 

 gathered without impoverishing the precipitous banks of the 

 stream, which owes its volume to the union of the burns of 

 Care and Sorrow, and rushes half hidden between the riven 

 rocks of this mysterious ravine. 



Next morning a conveyance was engaged, and a drive of 

 several miles by the Yetts of Muckart to Burnfoot, in the 

 parish of Glendevon, was undertaken ere the outlet from the 

 enormous reservoir, recently constructed for the water-supply of 

 the naval base at Rosyth, was reached. Here the journey began 

 on foot, and was continued for some distance alongside this 

 partially filled basin, till its main feeder was lost sight of in the 



