18 Transactions. 



single Act of Parliament. He submitted to them whether, in view 

 of the interests of the ever-increasing population, the time had not 

 arrived when it would be well to consider leg-islation for the 

 preservation of the common yellow trout. On the Tweed at the 

 present season they would see hundreds of anglers catching trout 

 in the condition of those they had seen that night, utterly unfit 

 both for food and for sport. He did think that it would be in the 

 interests of the inhabitants of our great towns who took their 

 pleasm-e in angling, and in the interests of anglers generally, that 

 some protection should be afforded liy a close time for yellow 

 trout. (Applause.) 



3rd December, 1891. 



Rev. William Andson, V.P., in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr Christopher Osselton, Sanitary Inspector 

 for Dumfriesshire. 



Donations. — Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institution of 

 Natural Science ; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; 

 North American Fauna, No. 5 (U.S. Department of Agi-iculture). 



Communications. 



I._i\r,;;e« on the Flora of Moffat District for 1801. 

 By Mr John T. Johnstone. 



Last year, in a paper read at one of the Society's meetings, I 

 gave a list of some rare plants formerly recorded for this district, 

 hut now requiring reconfirmation. Of that list I have this season 

 found stations for four of them, viz. : — 



Cardamine impatiens, L. — 22nd August, near Kirkpatiick Juxta Manse, 

 where it rather curiously occurs as a wayside plant at a damp and shady 

 place along the roadside. Its former stations were at Garpel and Beld 

 Craig Linns, and as some of the gravel on the road there was brought 

 from the Beld Ci-aig Burn, it is very probable that the plant is still 

 growing there somewhere, although I have neither seen or gathered 

 it there. 



Vicia orobus, D.C. — 21st June, Beef Tub and Corehead. 



Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Spreng. — Moffat Hills. This was gatliered on the 

 29th Aug. (foliage only). 



