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FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
In a marshy wood behind the north lodge of Carreston, 
about four miles from Brechin, on the Forfar road, Messrs 
Bousie and Laing. 
Orchis, L. Orchis. 
Br. sp.and v. 13. F. 3. 
0. mascula , L. Early Purple Orchis. H. 366, B. 289. 
— F. May, June. P. 
Woods frequent, less common in open pastures. Mr G. 
Don has found it with white flowers, and J have picked it 
with pink flowers in Balgay Wood and on Will’s Braes. 
Will's Braes, before their destruction by the operations in 
forming part of the line of the Dundee and Perth Railway, 
was a favourite resort of many of the inhabitants of Dundee, 
being one of the pleasantest places in its vicinity for a morn- 
ing or evening walk. A sweet wooded path on the sum- 
mit of the flower-covered rocks and banks winded along the 
side of the Tay from the west end of the town to the bay of 
Invergowrie ; on the one hand margined by cornfields, on 
the other commanding a delightful view of the noble river, 
and the richly cultured hills of Fife. The lover of flowers, 
of birds, of insects, or of varied and picturesque scenery, here 
found ample enjoyment ; and on the demolition of that bow- 
ery and blossmy path by the u quiet waters,” not a few may 
have said with the poet, — 
“ I never looked a last adieu 
To tilings familiar, but my heart 
Shrank with a feeling, almost pain, 
Even from their lifeless ness to part.” 
The following lines were suggested during an evening ram- 
ble on these braes, and to other visitors of the scenery, in 
whose minds similar thoughts have arisen, they may be ac- 
ceptable as a memorandum of the past : — 
THE STILLNESS OF A SUMMER NIGHT. 
The moonbeams are sleeping on forest and hill, 
And the winds are at rest, and the waters are still ; 
Not a sound breaks the silence of nature so deep — 
Not a whisper is breathed that could ruffle her sleep. 
