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by " except" and are printed in italics, as it is hoped that 

 attention will thus be more prominently drawn to the absence 

 of records from these, and also that the risk of confounding 

 them with records of actual occurrence will be prevented by 

 the difference of type. For all other species the numbers 

 given are those of the areas from which they have been re- 

 corded, or in which they are known to Mr. Bennett or to 

 myself, if not already published. The sign ? denotes that 

 the number that it follows at least requires confirmation ; 

 ?? or [ ] denotes that the record is almost certainly erroneous ; 

 f- after a number denotes the introduction by man, whether 

 intentional or accidental, of the species into the area ; " cas." 

 indicates that the plant has been introduced by man in some 

 way, directly or indirectly, but that it has failed to establish 

 itself. A careful survey of published records leads to the 

 belief that both j* and " cas." might be used with advantage 

 a good deal more freely than they have been by some local 

 botanists. The names of plants that are not regarded as 

 indigenous in the British Islands are printed in italics. 



NAMES OF PROVINCES, AND NAMES AND NUMBERS OF VICE- 

 COUNTIES IN SCOTLAND AS GIVEN BY H. C. WATSON IN 

 "TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY," AND FOLLOWED IN THE SUB- 

 JOINED CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION. 



West Lowlands. 72, Dumfries; 73, Kirkcudbright ; 74, Wigtown ; 

 75, Ayr; 76, Renfrew; 77, Lanark. 



East Lowlands. 78, Peebles; 79, Selkirk; 80, Roxburgh; 81, 

 Berwick; 82, Haddington ; 83, Edinburgh; 84, Linlithgow. 



East Highlands. 85, Fife and Kinross; 86, Stirling; 87, West 

 Perth and Clackmannan (including the Perthshire part of the 

 Forth basin) ; 88, Mid Perth (Perthshire between West Perth 

 and the rivers Tay and Garry) ; 89, East Perth (Perthshire 

 east of the Tay and the Garry) ; 90, Forfar ; 91, Kincardine; 

 92, South Aberdeen; 93, North Aberdeen (separated from 92 

 by the watersheds east and west of Inverurie) ; 94, Banff; 95, 

 Elgin (including the part of Inverness that cuts into Elgin) ; 

 96, Easterness (Nairn, and rest of Inverness east of N. and S. 

 watershed of Scotland). 



West Highlands. 97, Westerness (Inverness west of the watershed, 

 and Argyll north-west of Loch Linnhe) ; 98, Argyll (Argyllshire 

 between Loch Linnhe and Crinan Canal); 99, Dumbarton; 

 100, Clyde Isles (islands in the Firth of Clyde) ; 101, Cantire 

 (to Crinan Canal); 102, South Ebudes (Isla, Jura, and ad- 



