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87. Cyperacece. — Eriophorum, 1410 gracile. Carex (several 

 species). 



88. Gramina (many species). 



89. Filices. — Pteris, 1606 aquilina. Lomaria, 1608 spicant. 

 A-splenium, 1609 ruta-muraria (Glenluce Abbey), 1612 

 trichomanes, 1614 marinum, 1616 adiantum-nigrum. Athyrium? 

 1617 filix-femina (several varieties). Ceterach, 1619 officinarum 

 (Old Bridge of Barlae). Scolopendrium, 1620 vulgare. Cystopteris, 

 1623 fragilis. Aspidium, 1627 aculeatum, 1628 angulare. 

 Nephrodium, 1629 filix-mas, 1634 dilatatuin, 1637 Oreoptoris. 

 Polypodiura, 1638 vulgare, 1639 Piiegopteris, 1640 Dryopteris. 

 Osmunda, 1644 regalis (formerly abundant, now almost extirpated . 

 At C'ulroy there were fronds 6 or 8 feet long). Botrychium, 1647 

 Lunaria (Mouth of Luce, Glenjorrie). 



90. Lycopodiacece. — Lycopodium, 1648 clavatum. 



92. Equisetacece. — Equisetum (species). 



93. Characece (there seem to be several species). 



My friend, Mr John Thomson, M.D., Edinburgh, a good 

 botanist, marked the London list with me several years ago. 

 I regret that it is so very incomplete. There are many blanks 

 left in the Genera, Rananculus, Viola, Cerastium, Rubra, Rosa 

 Saxifraga, Rumex, and Euphorbia, and I have marked none 

 of the Salices, Potamogetons, or Orchidians. I have marked none 

 of the Juncacete, Cyprcacese, or Gramina, all of which are plenti- 

 ful. We are of opinion that there are at least 350 species of 

 plants in Old Luce Parish, beside the Ferns, ifec, which are 

 plentiful. 



Experts in the Society will tind this district well worth visit- 

 ing. The variety of the Flora is surprising, for there is little 

 variety in the geological formation. We have only the Lower 

 Silurian Sandstone, with a dyke of Diorite on Balcary Fell. 

 No part of the parish attains 600 feet above the level of the 

 sea. The plantations are not very extensive, and I have not 

 marked many of the trees found in them. There are remains of 

 a native forest beside the river Luce. We have a great extent of 

 moor and peat moss, and of sand hills. The salt marsh at the 

 mouth of the Piltanton, the gravel beds and sands at the mouth 

 of the Luce, and at Gillespie, and the rocks along the sea shure 

 from the mouth of the Luce to Auchenmalg Bay, and at Craig- 

 narget furnish a great variety of habitat. The mouth of the 



