10 Transactions. 



at Orchardton in the neighbourhood, with a lady of which the 

 nun's slab thus becomes associated. 



Possibly some of the local archa?ologists may be able to trace 

 a connection between a lady of the Orchardton family, if there 

 was such a family there in the fifteenth century, and the vener- 

 able abbey. 



Mr Starke said the lettering was quite distinct on the stone 

 thirty years ago, when his father wrote the paper in question, 

 and he referred to the photograph taken at the time and included 

 in the transactions. There was at that time no doubt about the 

 remaining letters ; the only question was about the words that 

 were absent. He referred to a letter of the late Mr Francis 

 Maxwell of Breoch — than whom there was no better authority — 

 as supporting the rendering then given, and countenancing the 

 theory that the stone indicated the grave of the last Prioress of 

 Lincluden Abbey. In the letter Mr Maxwell also stated that he 

 was in possession of evidence to shew that the report that the 

 nuns were expelled on account of a slander was unfounded, and 

 that this was done simply because Archibald the Grim wished to 

 convert the abbey into a collegiate church, in order that prayers 

 might be said for the founder and his ancestors and successors. 



2. — " Botanical Notes for iSgs^ By Mr James M'Andrew. 



In continuation of former Botanical Notes for Wigtownshire, 

 I have to report that I spent a few weeks of the past summer 

 (1893) at Portpatrick and Sorbie, and that in addition to plants 

 formerly recorded by me from Wigtownshire, I have now to note 

 the following new plants gathered around Portpatrick by Mr 

 Dugald MacFarlane, Greenock, and myself: — 1, Agrostis canina, 

 common on the moors ; 2, Tnfoliiim hybridinn (alsike clover), 

 common ; 3, Avena pubescens, about old Dunskey Castle and 

 Craigoch Burn in plenty. This grass I also found on Physgill 

 shore ; 4, Campanula latifoUa, in Dunskey Glen. Some of the 

 rarer plants in Dunskey Glen are Broinus asper in great beauty and 

 abundance, Carex pendula, Melica uniflora, Scolopendrium vidrjare, 

 Asplenium trichomancs, the two Hepaticse Lejeunea Machayii and 

 Lejeunea serpyllifolia^ and the Lichens Leptogium tremelloides and 

 Parmclia pn-lata, by far the most common parmelia on trees. I 

 failed to find FruUania jragilifol ia ^ recorded for Kilitringan Bay. 



