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little question that it is truly native. The next 

 plant in Hopkirk's list is the pretty little Adoxa 

 3Ioschatellina, which everyone recognises as indigen- 

 ous. Yet it shows some inclination towards cultivated 

 spots. This difference of habitat between these two 

 plants, though so slight, is well brought out in the 

 Flora Glotfiana, where Paris is said to grow " in 

 woods," and Adoxa " in woods and at the roots of 

 hedges." Though Adoxa is much commoner than 

 Paris, it is not so distinctly a dweller in the wild 

 woods. The rarity of Paris may perhaps arise from 

 its being a forest plant that has survived till suitable 

 wild places for it to flourish in have become scarce. 



On the authority of Lightfoot, he quotes Pyrola 

 rotundifolia as growing at the Falls of Clyde; but 

 he adds a note to explain that he regards this as 

 an error. The plant which Lightfoot meant he 

 identifies as Pyrola media, but it is undoubtedly 

 Pyrola minor. Long after the days of Lightfoot and 

 Hopkirk alike, both rotundifolia and minor have been 

 confused with media. 



Of the Saxifrages, he only gives Saxifraga stellaris, 

 S. granulata, and the introduced >S^. umhrosa. The 

 others we know of are certainly very rare in the 

 district; but S. oppositifolia occurs at Corra Linn, 

 S. hypnoides about Campsie, Dumbarton, &c., and >S^. 

 aizoides in various localities in the hilly country 

 around. He also records both species of Chrysosple- 

 nium, giving as stations for C, alt eimi folium, which 

 is much the rarer of the two, "in the glen. Castle- 

 milk," and "Beetle's Burn, near Clyde Iron Works." 



Scleranthus annuus is given as plentiful on the 

 sandhills, Tollcross, where it is still found. 



He appears to have been the first botanist who 

 recognised the very distinct variety hirsuta of Sileiie 

 inflata. He says: "Li this variety, which does not 

 seem to have been previously remarked, the leaves 

 are much narrower, and the whole plant thickly set 

 with glandular, white, simple hairs." This variety is 

 still to be found at the Old Waterworks quite near 



