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The Manchester collectors were so elated with their success 

 that they named it the Manchester Treble Bar. I don't see 

 why we should not name it the Dumfries Treble Bar, seeing 

 that we have it in our own locality, namely, at Tinwald 

 Downs, where I myself found it in July last. I have not 

 been able as yet to see the larva, so that I cannot speak of 

 it at this time. It is said to feed on Vaccinium myrtillus or 

 bilberry. 



Brief Account of the Botany of Col vend and South- 

 wick. By the Rev. James Feasee, Colvend. 



Read 2d February, 1864. 



What I have undertaken to-night, at the suggestion of our 

 excellent Vice-Preses, Dr Gilchrist, is to give you some 

 brief account of the botany of Colvend. I was not long 

 settled in Colvend till I found that it was peculiarly rich in 

 botanical treasures ; that it was richer than any parish or 

 district of the same extent which I had ever had an oppor- 

 tunity of botanizing. If we except those districts in which 

 from the elevation of the mountains contained within them, 

 a truly Alpine flora is to be met with, I question if there 

 are many districts in Scotland of similar extent in which a 

 greater variety and number of rare and interesting plants 

 can be found. And the reason is that Colvend contains 

 within itself great and marked varieties of land and water. 

 It is naturally rugged and broken, a condition always 

 favourable to the growth, and preservation within its nooks 

 and glens, of plants, which left to grow in the field or by 

 the roadside would soon be rooted up or trodden down. It 

 is intersected and bounded by hills, none, it is true, of any 

 great elevation,— Laggan Hill, the most central, is about 

 900 feet high, and Boreland Hill, which separates South- 

 wick from Kirkbean and Newabbey, is about 1,100 feet. On 

 hills of this height, of course, we can neither have an Alpine 



