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that it may be a rather recent arrival there. In the woods we 
noticed Pyrola media , but it seems not to flower freely, for we could 
identify it only by one of last year’s fruit-stalks. After looking at 
the Black Loch and the White Loch, we made our way to a favourite 
hunting-ground of the late Abram Sturrock—Muirton Wood. In a 
marsh there we noticed Myrica Gale , Utricularia intermedia , Carex 
teretiuscula , C. limosa , and C. filifonnis . In the wood itself Linncea 
borealis has long been known to grow, and we were glad to find that 
it seems to be rapidly increasing. This year, at least, it was not 
flowering at all freely. 
After this we went on to the Rae Loch, where we saw Carex 
teretiuscula and C. filifonnis, and thence to Marlee Loch, the shores 
of which we traversed for some distance, but did not see much to 
interest us, except Lythrum Salicaria —possibly wild, as it seems to 
be native at the neighbouring Rae Loch. We then returned to Blair¬ 
gowrie, having had a pleasant but very, very hot walk. 
On ist July Mr. Barclay, Mr. MTntosh (of Inver), and I went to 
Dalguise with the intention of exploring the deep rocky ravine which 
the Kincraigie Burn has hewn out of the hillside. On the railway 
embankment between Dalguise Station and the Tay some interesting 
plants were noticed, including Potentilla reptans , (first observed here 
by Mr. MTntosh some years ago, and probably an accidental intro¬ 
duction in this spot), Equisetum pratense , Trifolium agrarium, 
Anthemis arvensis, &c. In the fields here and elsewhere the more 
than usual abundance of Centaurea Cyanus was noticeable, possibly 
due to the shortness of the corn. In a backwater of the Tay Apium 
inundatum , a plant not hitherto noticed in the district (Silurian, 
Perth), grows in profusion. 
An examination of an extensive shingle confirmed what we have 
observed elsewhere, that, notwithstanding the proximity of the river 
shingles and the lower haughlands (recently shingles) to the water, 
their flora is exceedingly poor this year, and that many of the plants 
which had obtained a footing on them had suffered much from, if 
they had not altogether been killed by, the drought. 
Leaving the Tay we followed Kincraigie Burn past the Milton 
of Kincraigie and entered the ravine, through which the stream 
descends in a series of waterfalls. The sides of the ravine are for 
the most part very precipitous, but a good climber can make his way 
in the bed of the stream for nearly the whole extent of the gorge, as 
the rocky bed is more or less step-like in structure. As the tops of 
the banks are well clothed with natural wood, many parts of the 
ravine are in deep shade. 
The primary object of our search was a Hawkweed (Hieracium 
cuspidatum , Lindeb.), which we found (for the first time in Britain) 
near the top of the ravine during the Society’s excursion to Loch 
Skiach in 1891. Soon after entering the gorge one specimen in 
flower was detected, and this caused us to hope that the species 
would prove not to be uncommon, but the specimen in question 
proved to be the last as well as the first seen on this occasion. From 
the inaccessible nature of some of the rocks, as well as the profusion 
