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Mains of Dun, Marten’s Den, Den of Duninald, &c. Mr A. 
Croall, 
E. parvifloriim, Sohreb. Small-flowered Hairy Willow- 
herb. H. Ill, B. 105.— F. July. P. 
Near the beach, between Boodyardsand Stannergate, east 
from Dundee. Banks of the Dighty, opposite the flower- 
mills on the old Glammis road. 
Coast between Boddin and Duninald, Mr G. M c Farlane. 
E. montanum , L. Broad Smooth-leaved Willow-herb. 
H. Ill, B. 105.— F. July. P. 
Frequent throughout the county. 
E. roseum, Schreb. Pale Smooth-leaved Willow-herb. 
H. 112, B. 106.— F. July. P. 
Waste ground about Kinnaird, Messrs A. Bousie and 
John Laing. 
These enterprising young votaries of the science, during 
two years’ location at Kinnaird Castle (between Montrose and 
Brechin), as gardeners, exerted themselves to investigate the 
botany of the neighbourhood, and their researches were amply 
rewarded. In that period they collected upwards of 500 spe- 
cies of phasnogamic 1 and cryptogamic plants, independant of 
others in the adjoining counties, and including the rare Epi- 
lobium above-named, Galium erectum, Corallorliiza innata, 
Phascum alternifolium , Anthoceros punctatus, and many 
other interesting plants. When it is considered that these 
explorations were made chiefly when the day’s labours were 
over, and that they often walked seven or eight miles after 
six o’clock in the evening, botanizing till twilight departed, 
and returning home with their floral acquisitions under the 
shadow of night, their zeal in the prosecution of this study is 
most exemplary; and no one in their profession, it is be- 
lieved, ever regretted devoting some portion of leisure 
time to the study of botany. Indeed, every gardener ought 
to be, to some extent, a botanist ; and perhaps the day is not 
far distant when some knowledge of that subject will be 
deemed an essential item in the qualifications of a gar- 
dener. 
E. tetrac/onum L. Square- stalked Willow-herb. H. 112, 
B. 106. — F. July, August. P. 
In ditches and marshy places frequent. 
