312 Dr Graham's Botanical Exairs'ion. 



mulus has been given to this lately, by the establishment of the 

 Botanical Society, the zealous members of which gallop and 

 creep in succession over every acre within the range of our lo- 

 cal flora. Scintillations from this body have also taken place in 

 various directions over Scotland. In August, Dr Gilbert Mac- 

 nab and Mr Ashby made a very rapid journey through Forfar- 

 shire, Aberdeen, Sutherland, and Orkney. The success which 

 attended the four days' journey with my pupils to the Mull of 

 Galloway last year, excited a desire in some friends to accom- 

 pany me to that district this year again; and by appointment 

 we met at Stranraer on the 1st of August. At Lochnaw Castle 

 we crossed the peninsula which separates Loch Ryan from the 

 Irish Channel, walked a few miles along the west coast at this 

 point, and afterwards examined, with considerable care, every 

 promising part of the coast from the station of Ononis reclinaia 

 north of West Tarbet, round the Mull of Galloway, and by 

 Drummore, Sandhead, Glenluce, Glasserton, Whithorn, Isle of 

 Whithorn, Cragleton Castle, and Garlieston, to Wigton, where 

 the party broke up on the 9th. I afterwards visited the shores at 

 Kirkcudbright and Balmaehead. From these sources the very 

 brieff observations which I am now to make are derived, 



Acinos vulgaris. — Near Aherladt/, Dr Balfour ; Queensferry Hills, Dr Dewar. 

 Aira cristata — Extremely common on the dry hilly pastures near Edin- 

 burgh. We remarked that it was very scarce in similar situations in Gal- 

 loway Ajuga pyramidalis. — Plants were given to Dr Macnab, and two 



stations pointed out to him in Orkney^b^ Dr Alexander R. Duguid^, but the 



season was too far advanced for him to gather it Allium oleraceum 



Near Montrose, Dr Balfour and Dr Macnab.-l — Alyssum calycinum I 



last year noticed the discovery of this plant in two Scottish stations ; I 

 I may notice now in confirmation of the propriety of restoring this genus 

 to the British Flora, that Mr Watson informs me the same species has been 



found in Leicestershire. Artemisia maritima — Mouth of the Tyne, near 



Tyningham, in great abundance, Dr Balfour. In various places to the 

 eastward of Burrow Head in Galloway, but nowhere that we observed so 



abundant as near Cragleton Castle, and at St Mary's Isle Asperugo pro- 



cumbens Long ago observed near Guillon Links, but not for several years, 



till this season, when it was first noticed near Luffness, by Mr Forbes. It 



grew there in abundance in a neglected field Asplenium alternifoliura. 



—Very sparingly near Dunfermline, Dr Dewar. Dunkeld, Dr Macnab.—— 

 Bartsia viscosa — This plant, so abundant on some parts of the west coast^of 

 Scotland, was not seen last year in Galloway, and only sparingly this year 

 near Port William. Bromus arvensis. — Two stations only in the neigh- 



