NAMELESS VARIETIES. 21 
varieties, for which I can find no name in hooks. 
One of these, and the most heautiful in its dimi- 
nutive grace, is hardly three inches in length. 
The pinnae are nearly opposite each other, and are 
in the lower pinnules thrice-pinnate, the whole 
of the divisions are acute, and this separates it 
from C. alpina, as also from dentata. I ha\-e 
other varieties equally distinct, and coming up 
year after year true to their original form, but I 
did not find these at Callander, though all the 
old broken walls abounded in the usual form of 
C. fragilis, and I brought away dozens of plants 
in their compact mummy cases. 
My first Scotch " Sabbath " was passed within 
the shadow of Ben-ledi. How different it was 
from an English Sunday, and still more from an 
Italian jour de fete. A deep solemnity seemed 
fallen on the Avorld, the very mountains looked a 
shade more grim, and the wild flowers as if they 
blushed at looking so pretty, and growing on this 
sober day. I went to the ^' Established Church," 
from which the "Free Kirk'' has fallen away, 
