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Besides, it is not mentioned in “‘Clydesdale Flora,” and it is also 
absent from the list of “Casuals” in the “Fauna and Flora of the 
West of Scotland.” I found it plentiful on the walls of the old 
castle of the MacLeans of Coll. We have thus an extreme 
westerly station for an east country plant—a point which those 
having some knowledge of the causes of the distribution of plants 
may be able to explain. 
I will conclude my notes by referring to a few ferns, many 
of the commoner species of which were observed on the island. 
Some fine plants of Asplentum marinum were found on rocks a 
little to the south of Major Stewart’s house, and this fern is likely 
to occur on other parts of the coast. Osmunda regalis—the Royal 
fern—was frequent on the side of the loch, behind the overseer’s 
house, and also on a small island in a loch about midway between 
Aranagour and Acha. [I heard also of its occurrence in other parts 
of Coll. Botrychvwm lunaria I found on some grassy banks a little 
west of the school-house. One very rare plant said te be found in Coll 
—but of whose existence there I did not learn till I came home, 
which caused me not a little regret—was Eriocaulon septangulare. 
There are only two counties given for it in the “ London Catalogue,” 
and in “ Withering’s British Flora.” Coll and Skye are given as 
stations. However, it is perhaps best that something worth 
looking for is left, in case I should be able to renew my visit. 
I have now gone over a few of the more interesting plants found 
during a two day’s ramble over the Island of Coll, and there is no 
doubt, I think, that the list could be largely increased by a more 
extended search. I mayadd, that MajorStewart, the proprietor of the 
greater part of the island, and his overseer, were most obliging, both | 
as to affording the fullest liberty to ramble over the island, or in giv- 
ing what information they possessed regarding its history, &c. The 
old castle I have spoken of might alone form an interesting subject 
for a paper, but perhaps what I have said may induce some 
member with more leisure and ability to visit Coll, and to 
place before the Society a more thorough record of its natural 
history and antiquities than I have been able to do. 
