2iO TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



been greater. The havoc wrought by all that cutting 

 and carving has probably been for the benefit of 

 the community; and I am sure that, were Hopkirk 

 to return to Dalbeth and ramble about as in the 

 olden time, his generous heart would rejoice at the 

 advance in material prosperity, and he would be 

 consoled for the absence of the few plants lost to 

 the district. 



In the same year (1813) in which the Flora 

 Glottiana was published, and from the same press, 

 there was issued a Catalogue of the Plants, indigenous 

 and exotic, cultivated in the Garden, Dalbeth. * 



From this list I find that in 1813 there grew in 

 Dalbeth Garden — disregarding the varieties enumer- 

 ated, excex3t in a few cases where I think there is 

 sufficient reason to include them — no less than 2,253 

 different kinds of plants, of which 1,054 are marked 

 as indigenous and 1,199 as exotic. Many additions 

 continued to be made to the collection, and a 

 Supplement to the Catalogue was printed in 1815, 

 in which 1,135 additional species are enumerated, 

 including 121 indigenous and 1,014 exotic. How 

 Hopkirk disposed of this fine collection I daresay 

 you are all aware, and to that I shall again refer. 



His next work was entitled : Flora Anoinoia : 

 A General Vieiv of the Anomalies in the Vegetable 

 Kingdom. It was published in 1817 at Glasgow by 

 John Smith & Son. 



The object of the work was — using Hopkirk's 

 own language — " to exhibit in one view the 

 anomalies which take place amongst vegetables, 

 by collecting together such as are recorded, or have 

 come under the author's own observation." These 

 he arranges under four general heads, viz., the 

 Anomalies of the Boot, of the Stem and Branches, 



* This little book is now rare, and for a copy my thanks are 

 ■due to Mr. .Joseph Christie, who is so well known as a Glasgow 

 Botanist. It is interesting to note that besides being printed 

 in this city, the paper used was made here, and is water-marked 

 — "R. Collins, 1806." 



