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Crambe maritima in fruit ; Honckenya peploides : 

 Hubus ccesius ; Equisetum maximum; Inula dysen- 

 teric a : Carlina vulgaris : Verbascum Thapsus : Glaux 

 maritima: Samolus Valerandi; Juncus glaucus : Orchis 

 latifolia and Scilla verna. At Monreith Bay and Lag 

 Point there was a profuse display of such plants as 

 Convolvulus Soldanella : Ononis arvensis ; Erodium 

 cicutarium, with occasional plants of Erodium manii- 

 mum ; Erynyium maritimum. : and Galium littorale. 

 Salsola Kali, at Lag Point, was like a field of yo ung 

 whins. The woods at Monreith have a superabundant 

 growth of Lychnis diurna and Urtica dioica, with 

 occasional tall plants of Conium maculatum. I saw 

 Helianthemum vulgare only twice. Mr. Druce men- 

 tions that Habenaria chlorantha was present to the 

 exclusion of Haberiaria bifolia: but as the season 

 was late I could not verify this statement. Osmunda 

 regalis, once common in some parts of Wigtownshire, 

 is not yet extinct. I saw half-a-dozen seedling 

 plants in the area of a few square yards. 



The county is very bare of mosses, hepaticse, and 

 lichens. The most conspicuous new lichen I gathered 

 was Ramalina evernioides, which grew in plenty on 

 trees at Kirkmaiden churchyard, south of Monreith 

 Bay. 



The following plants recorded from Wigtownshire 

 have not as yet been seen in the neighbouring 

 county of Kirkcudbright : Sagina maritima, Sjoergu- 

 laria neglecta, Erodium maritimum, Carduus tenui- 

 ilorus, Bcutsia viscosa, Thymus Chamcedrys, Lamium 

 intermedium, Euphorbia paralias, Equisetum maxi- 

 mum* Isolepis Savii, and Torilis nodosa. On the other 

 hand, about 70 plants of Kirkcudbrightshire have 

 not yet been found in Wigtownshire. Wigtownshire 

 requires further work to make its list of flowering 

 plants more complete, but from the paucity of 

 workers this will require time. 



Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Last September I gathered at West Risk, three- 

 quarters of a mile from New Galloway, a Juncus which 



* Since found south of Creetown, in July, 1888. 

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