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parts of Galloway. It is comparatively small, grows with a 

 trailing rather than an erect habit, and may on this account 

 be often overlooked ; the more so that it does not flower till 

 late in the season, August and September. Still it cannot be 

 a plant of frequent occurrence anywhere, for Dr. Balfour told 

 me he had never gathered it but once.* Professor Arnot of 

 Glasgow had never seen it growing, neither had the late 

 Professor Henslow of Cambridge, so I cannot but regard it as 

 an acquisition within the bounds of our Society. 



This station, found last year about this time, had been 

 known some thirty years before, but had been lost sight of. 

 In Sir William Hooker's interleaved copy of his Flora Scottica, 

 now in the possession of Professor Arnot, I was sui-prised to 

 find marked on the blank-leaf opposite the S. minor, as a 

 station for it, '' Laggan Hill, Colvend!' This circumstance 

 proves the importance of such an Association as ours, to 

 treasure up these and such Hke discoveries ; and I do hope 

 that when the whole province included in our range has 

 been fully botanized, we shall have the satisfaction of seein^ 

 a flora of the two counties, Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbright- 

 shire, which I venture to think will be found as rich and 

 varied as the flora of any portion of Scotland. 



Note of the Ai^tiquities of the Stone, Bkonze and Ikon 

 Periods, found in Dumfriesshire and Galloway. By 

 Mr. Gibson, Treasurer to the Society. 



Read 6tli January 1863. 



As it will be important for the Society to possess and pre- 

 serve a correct note and record of the antiquarian remains that 

 have been found at various times within its range, I now sub- 

 mit the following Hst of those belonging to the three periods 

 above indicated, which have occurred to my own observation. 

 In every parish in Dumfriesshire and GaUoway, numerous 

 • Professor Balfour collected this plant abundantly inl843 near Glenluce. 



