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passed through my hands as indicated by the mark ! ; many have 

 been recorded in the Reports of the Botanical Exchange or 

 Record Clubs ; and are from sources believed to be trustworthy ; 

 and for a large number of records I am indebted to the Rev. W. 

 W. Newbould. Other records have been rejected, on various- 

 grounds ; though they may ultimately prove, on further evidence, 

 to merit a place in the Scotch flora. In regard to several of the 

 species I have added notes, which in many cases are suggestive 

 rather than affirmative. 



The nomenclature and the sequence of species are the same as 

 in "Topographical Botany." So, too, the counties and vice- 

 counties into which Scotland is divided are the same as in that 

 work. For brevity it has been found necessary to denote them 

 by the numbers there employed for them. The utmost care has- 

 been employed to prevent errors arising from the use of numerals 

 instead of names. To facilitate reference I subjoin the list of 

 counties and vice-counties with the number for each. As the 

 numbers for Scotland in " Topographical Botany " run from 72 to 

 112, there is no risk of confusion by making use of the numbers 

 1 to 12, merely for those above 100, hence this is done for brevity. 

 The numbers run as follows: — 72 Dumfries, 73 Kirkcudbright, 74 

 Wigton, 75 Ayr, 76 Renfrew, 77 Lanark, 78 Peebles, 79 Selkirk, 

 80 Roxburgh, 81 Berwick, 82 Haddington, 83 Edinburgh, 84 

 Linlithgow, 85 Fife and Kinross, 86 Stirling, 87 West Perth, 88 

 mid-Perth, 89 East Perth, 90 Forfar, 91 Kincardine, 92 South 

 Aberdeen, 93 North Aberdeen, 94 Banff, 95 Elgin, 96 Easterness, 

 97 Westerness, 98 Argyle, 99 Dumbarton, 100 Clyde-isles, 1 Can- 

 tire, 2 South Ebudes, 3 mid-Ebudes, 4 North Ebudes, 5 West 

 Ross, 6 East Ross, 7 East Sutherland, 8 West Sutherland, 9 Caith- 

 ness, 10 Hebrides, 11 Orkney, 12 Shetland. 



The chief sources of information have been as follows, — Papers 

 in the "Journal of Botany," the Reports of the Record Club 

 (quoted R. C) for 1881-82, and 1883, and of the Botanical Ex- 

 change Club (quoted E.C.), and MS. lists from Messrs. Newbould, 

 Linton, and others who are quoted in the subsequent lists. Cer- 

 tain counties and vice-counties appear very frequently in these 

 lists; and the information in regard to several of them is taken 

 so much from one source for each, that, to save space, this 

 has not been repeated ; and the number of the county or vice- 

 county is given alone, except when the information for it is drawn 



