72 Transactions. 



9tli March, 189 Jf. 



Mr James G. H. Starke, Advocate, Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



New Jlfember. — Mr Duncan James Kay of Drumpark. 



Communications. 



1. — A List of Wigtownshire Plants. 

 By Mr James M'Andrew, Assoc. Bot. Soc. Edin. 



Until Mr G. C. Druce, of Oxford, visited Wigtov^nshire in 

 1883, and gave a very extensive list of its plants. West Galloway 

 was almost a terra incognita as regards its Flora. Several lists 

 of its rarer plants had been given from 1835 onwards, but the 

 very common plants had not been recorded until Mr Druce's list 

 appeared in the Botanical Record Club for 1883. Previous 

 records of Wigtownshire plants had been given by such names as 

 Prof. Balfour, J. T. Syme, Graham, Arnott, Macnab, Sibbald, 

 Bailey, Horn, Cooper, Maughan, Greville, Winch, &c, Mr 

 Druce's list forms the foundation of the following list. It has 

 been very considerably enlarged by the Rev, James Gorrie, F.C. 

 Manse, Sorbie ; Sir Herbert E. Maxwell ; Rev. George Wilson, 

 F.C, Glenluce, &c. Personally I have added, from time to time, 

 a great many plants to the Wigtownshire list — the result of 

 holiday botanizing at Port Logan, Drummore, Portwilliam, Isle of 

 Whithorn, Garliestown, Sorbie, Cairnryan, and Portpatrick. The 

 midland and the more northern portions of the county have not 

 been fully explored, but as these parts have a great similarity of 

 moorish land, there is little probability of finding many new 

 plants there. 



•I very heartily express my indebtedness to Mr G. F. Scott- 

 Elliot for furnishing me with the dates of the first records of many 

 of the Wigtownshire plants, and also to the Rev. James Gorrie, 

 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Rev. George Wilson, &c., who have in 

 various ways given me valuable assistance, and to Mr Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, for determining doubtful plants. As a 

 few new plants are still being recorded for Wigtownshire every 

 year, it cannot be afiirmed that the following list is complete, but it 

 furnishes the fullest list of the Wigtownshu'e plants yet published, 

 and additions can be recorded as they occur. 





