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Land a more restricted area, confining itself within 

 the boundaries of the county, and on this account it 

 lacks all the plants of the sea-board. 



Hopkirk enumerates about 675 species and varie- 

 ties of Phanerogams, including 2 species of Cha- 

 racese ; 32 species and varieties of Ferns ; 80 Mosses ; 

 19 Hepatics; 94 Lichens and Algse, including 10 Fungi 

 then classed as Algae; and 99 Fungi. 



For the sake of comparison, the following details 

 a,s to other works of a similar kind may prove use- 

 ful, flowering plants only being included : 



Greville's Flora Edinensis, 1824, takes in the dis- 

 trict within ten miles of Edinburgh, and enumerates 

 771 species. 



Patrick's Flora of Lanarkshire, 1831, includes 604 

 species. 



Kennedy's Flora of Clydesdale, 3rd edition 1874, 

 gives 809 species and 109 varieties. 



The list in our published Fauna and Flora of the 

 West of Scotland, 1876, comprehends 748 species and 

 88 varieties of plants considered to be indigenous, 

 and 126 species and 2 varieties occasionally found 

 but not indigenous,— in all, 874 species and 90 

 varieties. 



Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, 1777, gives descriptions 

 and records localities for about 825 species. 



Hooker's Flora Scotica, 1821, includes 1075 species. 



In the last edition of the London Catalogue of 

 British Plants, the total number of the species of 

 flowering plants found in the British Islands is 1601. 



Hopkirk's catalogue is arranged, I need hardly 

 say, on the Linnsean system, and follows in the lines 

 of Smith's Flora Britannica. It includes every plant 

 a'p2darently indigenous, however doubtful that may 

 be from situation or any other circumstance. 

 ~ In Class I., Order I., Monandria Monogynia, he 

 includes the Charas, at that time and for years after 

 classed as flowering plants. Linnaeus himself at first 

 placed this genus among the Cryptogamia ; but as 

 the organs of fructification were found to be con- 



