BOTANICAL NOTES. 207 



XXI. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM WIGTOWNSHIRE 

 AND KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. 



BY JAMES M'ANDREW. 



[Read 23rd March, 1888.] 



Wigtownshire. 



Last year I gave the Society a few notes on the 

 Flora of Portpatrick and of Wigtownshire in general- 

 As I spent a fortnight at Port- William, on the east 

 shore of the Bay of Luce, in July, 1887, perhaps a 

 continuation of these notes may prove of some 

 interest as illustrating the Flora of Wigtownshire,, 

 so little known as regards its Flora before 1883, 

 when Mr. G. C. Druce gave his list of Wigtownshire 

 plants in the Report of the Botanical Record Club. 



North and south of Port- William the coast is- 

 shingly and backed by ancient sea-cliffs. The only 

 sandy bay of any size is Monreith Bay, two miles- 

 south of Port-William. Along the sea-coast of the 

 Machars — the eastern peninsula of Wigtownshire — 

 is some good arable land ; but the interior and the 

 north consist, in a great measure, of rather unpro- 

 fitable and partially-drained boggy and marshy land,, 

 interspersed with numerous fresh-water lochs. Here 

 the vegetation is uninteresting, consisting only of 

 the commonest moor, marsh, and bog plants and 

 mosses. Even Juncus squarrosus is rare, and the 

 Carices are few and of the commoner species. On 

 the arable land are found the common weeds of 

 cultivation. As the highest hills are scarcely 1,000 

 feet, Wigtownshire is almost destitute of alpine 

 and even of sub-alpine plants — Galium boreale r 

 washed down by the Kiver Cree, being almost the 



