Those who are fond of collecting mosses and lichens will find not only a wide field in the district, but will, in the course of their researches, meet with many specimens of a rare and superior order, such as—

Glyphomitrium Daviesii Buxbaumia aphylla Orthotrichum rupestre Hypnum stramineum (cum fruit) Didymodon flexuosus Aulacomnium palustre Spagnum recurvum.

These are all rare and very interesting species. The Glyphomitrium aphylla grows on Trapean rocks. The Buxbaumia aphylla has never been obtained, we believe, near Bowling since Lyon’s time; and, to our young lady collectors we may say generally, that they can fill their books, if they please, with

The beautiful feather mosses The hair moss
The bog mosses The shining moss Hookeria
The fork mosses The silky Lubia, &c. &c.
In “Lichens” there are many species, and possibly you may find on rocks or stones—
The Romalina scapulorum
The Petsidea Palydactile
The Gyrophora Probarcida
The Romalina farinacea, &c., on trees
The Gladonia furcata. &c.. on walls.

In regard to interesting ferns, and particularly the Osmunda Regalis, or royal flowering fern, which has been so greatly in demand as to occasion its extirpation in many places along the Clyde coast. If our young friends, however, will only travel as far as Lochranza, Arran, they will find plenty of them under the rocks as you enter by the steamer on the left hand side, from two or three inches to three or four feet in height. They are also being cultivated in some of the gardens at Helensburgh in great perfection.