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cultivated plants were appearing in somewhat wild 

 places (as in the case of Achillea toTnentosa), whether 

 deliberately or accidentally introduced cannot now 

 be determined. This Carex does not seem to be 

 known at all hereabouts, and there can be little 

 doubt that it had either been introduced or an error 

 made in its determination. Several of the species 

 enumerated by Kennedy do not occur within 

 Hopkirk's district; but he appears to have over- 

 looked fulva, hinervis, and pendida. With reference 

 to the last, Hooker in his Flora Scotica (1821) 

 gives as stations, "Woods, Bothwell, and a little to 

 the east of Blantyre Priory," quoting Hopkirk as 

 his authority. Patrick (1831) appears to have been 

 m.ore familiar with the distribution of the plant, as 

 he adds to these stations : " by the Avon at Haugh- 

 head, and above Barncluith very abundant." Hoj)kirk 

 records Icevigata as occurring " in a marsh near 

 Glasgow" on the authority of J. Mackay. Patrick 

 says in " wet woods E. of Mugdock Castle." The shores 

 of the lower part of the Firth seem to be the nearest 

 localities w^here the plant has of late been found. 



Of the other CyiDeracece, Schcemis nigricans and 

 Bly sinus compressus, which hardly occur within the 

 limits of HojDkirk's district, are not recorded. Blys- 

 7nus rufus, Rhyncliospora alba, Eleocharis pahistris, 

 E, acicularis, Isolepis fluitans, L setacea, Scirpus 

 lacustris, S. tnaritijmis, S. sylvaticus, S. p)aucifloruSy 

 S. ca'sj^iitosus, and three s]3ecies of Eriojjlioruni are 

 all recorded by him under the various names by 

 which they were then generally recognised by bota- 

 nists. Scirpus Taherncmnontani, which occurs along 

 the margin of his district on both sides of the Clyde, 

 is not recorded by him. 



Of the Equisetacece he gives all the species enum- 

 erated by Hennedy except Equisetuni Tehnateia* and 



* That he had observed this conspicuous plant, but had only- 

 regarded it as an exceedingly large form of another species, 

 appears from a remark in his Flora Aiwmoia: "The Wood 

 Horse-tail ( Equisehim sylvaticum ) is found in wet rich ground 

 (as in the woods of Lanark) nearly six feet high, whilst in dry 

 pastures and on the road-sides it is never above one." 



