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Celtic Church. The great (jrerman or Frisian invasion ended 

 somewhere about Lockerbie, and entirely heathenised the country 

 that had been Christianised under Roman rule, and he supposed it 

 remained lieathen until the arrival of Mung-o in the beginning of 

 the seventh century. He came as a missionary from the Roman 

 Church, and introduced Roman methods, but the Celtic Church 

 retained the older methods. He vs^as supposing that the Celtic 

 Church would be confined to Galloway, or to Portpatrick or Loch 

 Ryan ; that in that district it remained strictly Celtic. 



Rev. John Cairns remarked that Mungo would lie as pure as 

 any of the missionaries. Ninian came from Rome, but not Mungo. 



Mr Thomson said he assumed that Galloway remained under 

 the influence of the Celtic Church. 



Dr Chinnock observed that the prevalence of the custom 

 among the Presbyterians of Ulster would seem to show that when 

 they immigrated it was universal in Scotland. 



Mr Thomson mentioned, in conclusion, that the use of short- 

 bread had been given up at Portpatrick since he carried away the 

 cakes. 



Mr Barbour, architect, said he had information that it was in 

 use in Kells until twelve years ago and in Dairy until four years 

 ago. 



1th Januanj, 1892. 

 Mr Thomas M'Kie, V.-P., in the chair. 



Election. — Mr James Gibson Hamilton Starke, advocate, was 

 elected Vice-President in the room of Major Bowden, deceased. 



Donations. — Transactions of the Canadian Institute of Natural 

 Sciences, Toronto ; Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society, North Carolina ; Journal of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh, April-July, 189L 



Communications. 



I. A Contribution to the Cryptogamic Botany of the Mo fat District. 



By Mr JAMES M'Andrew, New-Galloway. 



As the Moffat district is fairly representative of the sub- 

 alpine portion of Dumfriesshire, its flora has received considerable 

 attention, and therefore any further lists of its plants — whether 



