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tide. This lichen must be rare along the coasts of 

 Galloway, for I had not previously seen it. The 

 other British species, Ldchina confinis, was more 

 plentiful, and is found all along the shore. On the 

 shore of the West Lake at Dunskey, I found a 

 hepatie which I had once previously gathered near 

 New Galloway, and which is almost without doubt 

 Rice i a bifurca. 



Until quite recently, West Galloway was almost 

 a terra incognita as regards its botany. The late 

 Professor Balfour and a few others had taken runs 

 through the county, chiefly to the Mull of Galloway, 

 and recorded some of its plant rarities.* About 

 twelve years ago, while staying at Port Logan, 

 considerably south of Portpatrick, I gathered some 

 of its plants, and embodied a list of the rarer 

 species in the appendix to my List of the Flozcering 

 Plants of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. In 

 1873, Mr. C. Bailey visited the county and recorded 

 some of its plants ; and in 1883, Mr. Druce of Oxford 

 sup plied a very full list of both common and rare 

 plants of Wigtownshire in the Botanical Record 

 Club Report for 1883. In his introductory remarks 

 to this list, Mr. Druce's first sentence is : " The 

 aceomyjanying catalogue of Wigtownshire plants 

 fills up the only gap in the counties of Britain for 

 which no list of common plants has been supplied 

 to Mr. H. C. Watson or to the Record Club." A 

 perusal of these lists shows that Wigtownshire has 

 some very good and rare plants. 



During my stay at Portpatrick, I gathered the 

 following plants not hitherto recorded for the 

 county of Wigtown, No. 74 : Veronica hederifolia, 

 Fumaria confiisa, Leontodon hirtus, Beta maritima, 

 and Eicphoi-bia Paralias. Concerning the last-named 

 plant, Mr. Arthur Bennett writes me : " New r to Scot- 

 land. Balfour reported it from Fife, but it was only 



* A goodly list of Wigtownshire plants is given in the 

 Transactions of t/ic Philoso2)hical Society of Glasgow, vol. i» 

 (1841-44). 



