12 TltANSACTIONS. 



OriiitliiijHis perpH^illiis, Peta^ites vulgaris, and Polji<juii.uin. bistorta, 

 near Bariibarroch House. 



In addition to the above five new records for Wigtownshire, Mr 

 Gorrie has found : — G, Salix jmrpvrea, on the road to Whithorn, near 

 Castlewig'. 7, Carex teretiuscula, \&x. Ehrhnrtiana ; and 8, Carex 

 acuta, var. gracilescens, both in Prestrie Loch, Whithorn. 9, Carex 

 paniculata, var. simplicioi; Ravenstone Wood ; and 10, Habenaria 

 albida, on the farm of Balsier, Sorbie. These are ten new records 

 for Wigtownshire. 



KiRKCUDBRIGHTSHIKE. 



This summer (1893) I gathered FokniiUa reptaiis and Avena 

 flavescens on the railway embankment in CarHngwark meadow, 

 Castle-Douglas, and Avena flavescens also at the Holme, Balma- 

 clellan. TrifoUum hybridum, a new record, is very common. 

 Lophozia Orcadensis, in Knocksheen Burn, New-Galloway, is an 

 additional Hepatic for Kirkcudbrightshire. Lecanora orostliea 

 (Ach.) ; Lecanora atrynea (Ach.) ; Farmdia avibigua (Wulf.) ; and 

 Lecidea ncglectella (Nyl.), a new species, are additional Lichens for 

 the New-Galloway district, 



DUMFEIESSHIKE. 



Mr G. F. Scott-Elliot sends me Bj/rinii murale, a new moss 

 I'ecord for Moffat. 



3. — Maiiyr Graves of Kirkcudbrightshire. By Rev. JoHN H. 

 Thomson. 



The Martyr Graves of Kirkcudbrightshire have the same 

 characteristics as those in Dumfriesshire, of which I gave an 

 account in a paper read at a meeting of the Society, Nov. 7, 1890. 

 The stones over them seem in most cases to have been first erected 

 in the close of the seventeenth or the early part of the eighteenth 

 century. In most cases the original stones remain, but these 

 original stones have been re-dressed and the letters deepened, and 

 where this has not been done, a new stone, a cojoy of the old one, 

 lies alongside of what time has spared of it. In every case the 

 stones are kept with scrupulous care by the inhabitants of the 

 surrounding district, and Christians of all denominations have vied 

 with each other in preserving them either by repair, or by renewal, 

 or by fencing them in, or by erecting a more ambitious-looking 



