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Floreat ! all that we have seen to-day ; 
Floreat ! mountain flower and mountain way ; 
Floreat! sun that will not longer stay— 
Salix herbacea floreat! 
Floreant ! members of the mountain clan ; 
Floreat! each as individual man ; 
Floreat ! he who dares do all he can— 
Salix herbacea floreat ! 
Farewell ! O monarch of surrounding heights— 
Keeper of many hope-inspiring sights ; 
Farewell! we leave thee wrapt in evening lights— 
Salix herbacea floreat ! 
Is that the railway whistle that we hear ? 
Farewell until another joyous year, 
Until the swift days pass and draw us here— 
Salix herbacea floreat ! 
Shoulder each vasculum and take the way ; 
Shoulder your nets and cameras. Away ! 
Swift fall the shadows of departing day— 
Salix herbacea floreat ! 
Floreat ! Floreat ! All, all, farewell ! 
The answering echoes slowly rise and swell, 
And mingle with the distant station’s bell— 
Salix-herbacea-floreat! 
M. B. W. 
On 6th August we paid a visit to Invergowrie and worked up the 
side of the river to Longforgan. At Invergowrie station we got 
Galium erectum and Linaria minor (of which more anon). At Kin- 
goodie Quarry Sedum refiexum is well established, but the pools in 
which Ranunculus confusus used to abound have dried up and that 
local plant has disappeared. Above Kingoodie Trifolium fragiferum 
was found to occupy a much larger area than we suppose to be the 
case. Possibly it is spreading, but more likely it had been overlooked 
in former years. At Longforgan we took train for Kinfauns and went 
up the side of the Tay to Perth, finding Hypericum dubium a 
little above Kinfauns, and in the quarry at Barnhill siding Geranium 
fyrenaicum and Linaria minor . 
On ioth August we went to Birnam and walked up Strathbraan 
to Trochrie, examining the sides of the river. Near the Rumbling 
Bridge Betonica officinalis still grows, but not much else of interest 
was found till we got to the river banks rather farther up, when Avena 
pubescens and the commoner A.pratensis were noticed growing together. 
Crossing the river at Trochrie we descended the north bank to the 
Rumbling Bridge, near which Equisetum pratense and Carex remota 
were gathered. In the wild and almost inaccessible ravine below 
the bridge, the very local Festuca sylvatica is not uncommon. Near 
the Hermitage Prunus Cerasus occurs as a naturalised plant, and in 
