PLANTS OF THE CLYDE DISTRICT. 151 



XIX. 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE PLANTS OF THE 

 CLYDE DISTRICT, 



BY D. A. BOYD. 



[Read 25th November, 1S84.] 



Since the publication of the Clydesdale Flora, many 

 stations have been recorded for our rarer Flowering- 

 plants and Ferns in addition to those mentioned by 

 Mr. Kennedy; and several species, not previously 

 knov^n to occur in the West of Scotland, have been 

 added to the list of plants found in the Clyde 

 district. This result is largely due to the steady 

 increase vv^hich has taken place in the number of 

 our local workers, to whom the Society is indebted 

 for the permanent record in the Proceedings of not 

 a few facts of interest to the student of Topographi- 

 cal Botany. 



The importance of preserving a careful record of 

 new localities, and of the scarcity or abundance of 

 certain species in some parts of the district as com- 

 pared with others, is too obvious to call for any 

 special remark ; but this does not seem to have 

 been fully appreciated in the past, as no systematic 

 attempt has hitherto been made to preserve in a 

 permanent and accessible form the observations 

 made from time to time by individual workers. It 

 is only by means of such records that a correct 

 estimate can be formed of the number of our native 

 plants, and the extent of their distribution. 



The following notes consist, for the most part, of 

 observations recently made on some of the plants 

 occurring in parts of the district where I have been 

 working, especially in relation to the distribution of 

 local species, and to stations not already mentioned 

 in the Clydesdale Flora, Notes on the Fauna and 



