10 Botanical Records for 1896. 



Henbane are spreading, and are now abundant in Rigg- Bay, 

 Garliestown. These two, with Black horehound (Ballota nigra) 

 and Teasel, are all outcasts from the gardens of Galloway House. 

 The two— Chenopodiums and Atriplexes— were in great profusion, 

 and among them Atnplex Httoralis, new to Wigtownshire. Beta 

 viaritima we also gathered there. In Galloway House Woods 

 the Rev. Mr Gorrie gathered Geranium pratense. Further south 

 I saw a large bed of Pulicaria dysenterica. At Sorbie I gathered 

 Veronica Biixbaumii as a garden weed, and Mentha sativa, var. 

 paludosa, by the side of Sorbie Burn. Mr Gorrie finds Utricularia 

 intertnedia in Capenoch Moss. To sum up, the following are new 

 records for Wigtownshire : — 1, Miliuni effusum, Wood of Park, 

 Glenluce; 2, Potamogeton lucens, Whitefield Loch, Glenluce; 3, 

 Atriplex Httoralis, Rigg Bay, Garliestown ; 4, Ballota nigra, Rigg 

 Bay ; 5, Mentha sativa, var. paludosa, Sorbie Bum ; 6, Carpinus 

 betulis (Hornbeam), planted in the woods of Galloway House; 

 7, Orobus macrorhizus, var. tetiuifolius, by the Rev. James Gorrie, 

 near Moss Park, Sorbie. 



At Carsethorn Mr Samuel Arnott and I had several delightful 

 botanical rambles. We were disappointed in not finding several 

 of the rare plants recorded for Arbigland, Southerness, and 

 surrounding" neighbourhood. Tlie only new record for that 

 district and for Kirkcudbrightshire is Potamogeton pectinatus, 

 which I gathered in a ditch in the merse west of Southerness. 

 In the same ditch g-rew Glyceria or Poa aquatica, the same grass 

 which grows in such abundance in the moat of Caerlaverock 

 Castle. Now Catabrosa aquatica is recorded for the Merse, west 

 of Southerness, and I am almost certain that in this case there has 

 been a confusion of names, as the two grasses are very unlike 

 each other, though the name aquatica occurs in both. I was glad 

 to be able to find and confirm Scirpus Tabernoeinontani in abund- 

 ance in the same locality and also north of the mouth of Kirkbean 

 Bum. The three plants I was most anxious to find at Southerness 

 were Lepturus filiformis, var. incurvatus, the Isle of Man Cabbage, 

 and the Sea Bindweed. 1 spent part of two days searching for 

 them, but in vain, /uncus Balticus, at Gillfoot, no doubt is a 

 mistake, and is an example among several others of plants being 

 at first incorrectly named, admitted into a local list, and after- 

 wards copied by succeeding compilers. Among plants I gathered 

 in the neighbourhood of Carsethorn and Southerness were Hippiiris 



