314 Dr Graham's Botanical Excursion. 



of this plant, six or eight feet across, was observed this summer, probably 

 the first time, near Edinburgh, for Dalhousie "Woods, it is believed,'have been 



erroneously marked as a station Lycopus Europaeus.— In great profusion 



along the shores to the southward and eastward of Glenluce. Lysimachia 



vulgaris. — Near Parkhall, Stirlingshire, JMr Leannonth. I do not know 

 any station nearer Edinburgh for this plant, which was pointed out to me on 



the banks of Loch Lomond by Mr Joseph Hooker Malva moschata.—! 



doubt very much whether this plant ought to be considered other than an 

 outcast of gardens in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and in many other 



parts of Scotland ; but along the shores of Galloway it is certainly native. 



Melilotus leucantha. — In vast abundance in a deserted quarry on the banks 



of the Union Canal near Edinburgh Nuphar pumila — In a loch on the 



south side of the road leading from Aviemore to Inverness, and 2^ miles from 



the former, Dr Macnab. (Enanthe pimpinelloides — We found both last 



year and this extremely common in the marshes on the shore nearly along 

 the whole of our course in Galloway, but it had not been observed on the 

 east coast, till Mr Campbell gathered it in great abundance near Dunbar. 



Polygonum maritimum — In great abundance in many places along the 



soiUh shore of Galloway llhinanthus major.— 5*0 wc?^ fields on the coast be- 

 tween Arbroath and the Sands of Barry, frequent, Dr Macnab. Scirpus 



SaviL — In far greater abundance than it was found last year in Galloway, 



by the road-side, near Drummore, and at other places on the south coast. 



Senecio saracenicus. — Near Bathgate, Dr Simpson. Near Dunfermline, Dr 

 Dewar. I have not seen the former station, but I have gathered the plant 

 in the second, and see no reason to doubt its being wild. It is in sparing 



quantity, but is very far removed from any garden Silene Anglica. — 



In a field near Culloden, in great abundance, Mr John Forbes. Silene conica. 



— Montrose. Dr Macnab Silene noctiflora — Aberlady; Fife, Mr Stark; 



Dr Dewar.— —Slum latifolium. — Wet ground on the shore, a mile east from 

 Dunbar, Mr Campbell. Solanum nigrum — This is a scarce plant in Scot- 

 land, and it may be doubted whether it is ever met with there, except 

 when it has been introduced. We found it densely covering the ground 

 on some large defined patches, where sea-weed had been dried, near Sand- 

 head and Port William Specularia hybrida Sparingly in a field at 



Dirleton, Dr Balfour. Abundantly in a neglected field at Luffness.x Sym- 

 phytum officinale, var. flore fere njgro — This very remarkable variety, 

 which was some time ago sent to the Botanic Garden by Mr Smith of Ayr, 

 and retains its peculiarity in cultivation, we found in considerable quan- 

 tity by the road -side between Loch Ryan and the Irish Channel. Thalic- 



trum alpinum. — I have gathered this plant on the shore at Durness, but 

 only on the mountains to the eastward, and considered it an evidence that 

 a western longitude brought alpine plants to the shore in the same latitude ; 

 but this year it has been found by Dr Macnab, growing with Draba incana 



on the shore, so far east as the mouth of the river Naver. Trifolium or- 



nithopodioides. — Shore near Inverkeiihing, Miss Robertson. Very probably 

 this plant is more generally diffused than we at present know it to be. I 

 and many of my sharper-eyed friends must many times have trode ove/ 



