212 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



doubt that the lake meant is Fossil Marsh, which 

 lies to the north of Glasgow, and along the edge of 

 which the Tufted Loosestrife still abounds. It does 

 not appear to occur in any of the w^aters properly 

 called lakes near Glasgow. It was probably intro- 

 duced into Fossil Marsh through the medium of the 

 canal, in which it is profuse. Though a large plant, 

 it does not readily catch the eye, owing to its semi- 

 aquatic mode of growth; and it was then probably 

 very rare in the marsh, instead of being common 

 as it is now. 



Anagallis ccerulea, the Blue Fimpernel, he gives as 

 "said to grow in the fields about Lanark;" and his 

 opinion seems to be that it is a separate species 

 rather than a variety of A. arvensis. 



Convolvulus arvensis he inserts, adding "but not 

 common," a statement which still applies. C. sepium 

 was "frequent" in 1813 in cultivated fields and 

 hedges, just as it was last summer. 



The rare Lobelia Dortnianna opened its blue 

 blooms in all their native beauty in Bardowie and 

 Mugdock Lochs then as now. 



The introduced Impatiens Noli-ine-tangere probably 

 still grows "abundantly in a w^et glen at Castlemilk;" 

 but near as that is to the city — perhaps because near 

 — it seems to have become a terra incognita to all 

 outsiders save poachers, so that Touch-me-not is 

 quite an appropriate denizen of the place. 



The Violets enumerated are the same as those of 

 to-day; but the Viola canina of the books of that 

 time was a segregate species, including sylvatica and 

 flavicornis. The variety arvensis of V. tricolor is not 

 distinguished by him. The Sweet Violet (V. odorata) 

 still nestles here and there on dry bank or at hedge 

 foot as then ; but it cannot be considered indigenous. 



Neither can we regard as native in his district 

 such plants as Verhascuvi Thapsus, V. Lychnitis, 

 Hyoscyamus niger, Atropa Belladonna, Vinca minor j 

 and V, major, which he records, and which we fall 

 in with occasionally near gardens, in old quarries, 



