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ported for the district at all, or have been reported 

 on evidence which cannot be accepted as free from 

 doubt. With regard to the more remote districts 

 of the West of Scotland, the lists for the respective 

 Vice-Counties are apparently so incomplete as to be 

 of little value for scientific purposes. We may 

 further see that owing to this neglect on the part 

 of local workers, much of the topographical work 

 of the West of Scotland has been accomplished 

 by botanists from the Eastern Counties or from 

 England. 



With the view of placing our records on a more 

 satisfactory basis, several local botanists have during 

 the past year assisted me in commencing to work 

 out the distribution of plants throughout the West 

 of Scotland, which area, in the sense here employed, 

 may be regarded as including the following Wat- 

 sonian Vice-Counties or Provinces, viz. : 



This area embraces very varied country — ground 

 in the highest state of cultivation, as well as the 

 most barren heaths ; and fertile glens, as well as 



