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P, rep tans, L. Common Creeping Cinque-foil. H. 100, 
B. 91. — F. June, August. P. 
Plentiful on the banks of the Tay, as at Ninewells, Will’s 
Braes, and west end of the Magdalen-yard Green, and in 
many places along the coast. 
Near Arbroath, Mr G. Don. Between Montrose and 
Usan, Messrs Croall, Cruickshanlc, AFFarlane, and Kerr. 
/3. sericea, Bab. Usan, Mr Lindsay Carnegie. 
P. tridentata , Soland. Three-toothed Cinque-foih II. 
100, B. 91. — F. May, June. P. 
On Werron Hill, Clova, Mr G. Don. This hill has since 
been searched by Mr Kerr and a party from Montrose, but 
without success. It may, however, have occurred only in one 
spot, and such a spot may elude again and again the keenest 
researches of the mountain rambler. An authentic speci- 
men, gathered by Don, is in Mr Kerr's herbarium ; and 
there is also a specimen among the remains of an herbarium 
formed by Mr Douglas Gardiner in 1813, which had likely 
been given to him by Don, as they were intimate friends. 
Chcerophyllum aureum , and other of Don’s discoveries, are 
in the same collection, but none of them localized. 
P. Fragariastrum , Ehrh. Strawberry-leaved Cinque- 
foil. H. 100, B. 92. — F. April, May. P. (P. Fragaria, 
Poir. Fragaria sterilis , L.) 
Bocky banks of streams, Sidlaw Hills, and in the Dens of 
Airlie, Glammis, Hatton, Foulis, &c., abundant. 
Marten’s Den, Mr A. Croall. Banks between Marten’s 
Den and Kinaber Mills, plentifully, Mr A. Kerr. 
The place called Marten's Den, a favourite haunt of the 
Montrose botanists, and the lovers of rural scenery in that 
quarter, is thus described by Mr Croall : — “ This beautiful 
and secluded spot is situated at the southern extremity of the 
reservoir, or mill-dam, which confines the waters of the North 
Esk for the use of the mills of Morphie and Kinaber, and is 
about four miles north from Montrose. About half-way up 
the ravine a stream issues from a spring called the “ boiling 
well,” and flows towards the Esk, forming the boundary-line 
between the Rosemount and Craigo estates. The Den is 
richly wooded, and its bowery shades afford a cool retreat 
from the hot beams of a summer day, while the profusion of 
