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plants new to district or re-confirmed. 



Subularia aquatica, L., Loch Skene. 



Meliotus arvensis, TF., casual plant in own garden. 



Trifolium arvense, Barnhill sandpit. 



Ornithopus peipusilus, L., Dumfries road at Lochhouse Tower. 



yEthusa Cynapium, L., Wamphray and Kirkpatrick-Juxta. 



Meum Athamunticnm Jacq,. pastures on Wliitecoomb. 



Hieracium wnhellatum, L., Alton Mote. 



Bromus commutatus, Schrad, Holm fields. 



This summer (1893) I visited a number of the small out-of- 

 the-way Linns in the district, such as Harthope and Greskine in 

 Evan Water, Greigsland Burn, Dykehead Linn, Duff Kinnel, and 

 its tributaries in Johnstone, and various other places. No new 

 plants were recorded, but new stations were found for several of 

 our uncommon plants, showing that they have a wider distribution 

 in the district than might be inferred from the position of the 

 previous recorded stations. Among the most interesting of these 

 plants were : — 



Pyrola secimda, gathered in one of the tributaries of Duff 

 Kinnel, thio being 16 miles from the nearest of the five stations 

 for it previously known to me. 



Hieracium sparsifoliwn. Also in Duff Kinnel ; but the plants 

 are much more luxuriant in their habit than those to be gathered 

 at Beef Tub and Craigmichen Scaurs. 



Cardamine imjmtiens. This I found growing in the stackyard 

 at Middlegill, and it is also growing very abundantly as a garden 

 weed in Kirkpatrick-Juxta Manse garden. It was on the road- 

 side near this manse I found it growing in 1891, when it was 

 reconfirmed for the district. The Eev. Mr Little (a former 

 minister of the parish), who was an ardent botanist, would most 

 probably plant it in the garden some time during his incumbency, 

 where it has thriven so well as to have now become a regular 

 weed, and the specimens I originally gathered on the road-side 

 must have spread from the garden. 



The inside of the garden wall at the Manse is also covered 

 with Ceterach officinaruin, Willd., which in all probability would be 

 planted by the Rev. Dr Singer or Mr Little. 



The Rev. Wm. Brodie, the present minister, informs me that 

 both plants have been growing there in abundance all the time he 

 has been resident there. 



