MACALISTER—ON THE FLORA OF KINROSS-SHIRE. 205 
list in the new Statistical Survey of Scotland. To him, Mr. Maugham, 
Mr. Greville, and Mr. Robertson, of Inverkeithing, who contributed a list 
of the rare plants of Cleish, we are indebted for some information re- 
specting the plants of this district; but as the references are not in any 
way connected, and are in many cases indefinite, I have done what I 
could to supply the want in giving accurate and definite information 
concerning localities for the rarer plants of the district. 
The surface of the country is variable, and as such is varied in Flora. 
The loch side yields to us many lacustrine and palustrine plants of inte- 
rest; the more cultivated agricultural districts of Orwell parish, and the 
lower lying grounds of Strathearn, yield to us many of the commoner 
arvensine plants; while the low lying moorlands, plantations, and woods, 
and the neighbouring Ochil Hills, Cleish Hills, and Glen Farg supply in 
abundance illustrations both of a sylvestrine and Highland Flora. Glen 
Farg especially is rich in treasures of cryptogamic botany, but I reserve 
my report on that portion of the subject antil I can make it more com- 
plete by farther research; and the list of flowering plants and fern allies 
subjoined I hope to make more perfect by future visits to the same 
place. 
The southern portion of Co. Kinross is based on rocks of the Carbo- 
niferous period, continuous with the South Fife Coalfield, and Old Red 
Sandstone crops out and is quarried near Milnathort. Northwards we 
enter an extremely interesting igneous district, composed of trap rocks 
which gives a rough and hilly aspect to this part. The rock is mainly 
greenstone, composed in parts of augite in large proportion, and merg- 
ing from compact into porphyritic and amygdaloidal structures at the 
more broken district of Glenfarg. Compact greenstone is quarried at 
Hilton and Pittiloch, and in the cavities and substance of these rocks there 
are to be found many interesting minerals. Agates abound in the district 
of the Water of May, whichis a favourite locality for the obtaining of 
Scotch pebbles: sulphate of barytes, cale spar, compact felspar, adu- 
laria, Heulandite, mesotype, Laumontite, analcime, quartz, augite, 
Thomsonite, Fargite, natrolite, stilbite, apophyllite, and others, are 
among the minerals which are to be found here in greater or lesser 
abundance. Southward the Old Red Sandstone stretches as a belt across 
the country from the base of the Ochils to the neighbouring Kingdom 
of Fife, while still further southward the Carboniferous stone and coal 
measures of Kelty and Cowdenbeath extend into the south and west 
of Fife, broken here and there by igneous intrusion, and interspersed 
in a few places with Carboniferous limestone outcrops. From this slight 
sketch of its structure an extensive Flora might be anticipated, and 
hence the country is one of interest to the naturalist. 
The times of my visits were not very propitious towards the for- 
mation of a complete Flora, and this will explain many blanks in the 
list, which I trust in coming summers to render more perfect. I subjoina 
catalogue of the entire Flora of the district ; any plants of rarity, or of 
local distribution, I have noted as such; those uncommented on are of 
more common occurrence in the district. 
