Ossian Collection > Sketches descriptive of picturesque scenery, on the southern confines of Perthshire

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The Clielidomum^ and Lythrmn salicaria
are to be found in Inchmahoma. The
Agrimonia, Gomariim, Glinopodium, Gnapha-
lium dioicmn, Evipetrmn, Myrica, Asple-
nium, Lycopodium^ and other uncommon
plants, grow abundantly in this diflridt.
On the banks of Lochard, and efpe-
•cially on the river that joins Lochcon
and Lochard, the Osmunda Regalis, a
plant of the moft elegant appearance,
grows in vafl profufion. In Duke Mur-
doch's Ifland, as it is called, the Pyrola
longifolia has been found. The Bros era
rotundifoUa occurs in all the moiTes ; in
the mofs below Gartmore-houfe, the Dro-
sera longifolia abounds, intermingled with
that mofl elegant plant, the Andromeda
polifolia.
Under the farm houfes of Culigartan,
on the fouth-lide of Lochard, the Vac-
ciniuvi uUginosim occurs in plenty.
The berry is not fo finely flavoured as
that of the V. Myrtillus. The Solidago
Virgaurea, grows in the upper parts of
Callander and Aberfoyle in a profufion,
that