Transactions. Ill 



Botrychium lunaria Sw. Near Portpatrick ; The Bushes, 



Sorbie (3) ; Glenluce (5) ; Eavenstone. 

 Equisetum maximum Lam. Dunskey Glen ; Monreith : 

 Cairnryan ; S. of Sandhead ; Stoneykirk 

 (Arnott, 1848). 

 ,, maximum, var. serotinum, A. Br. S. of Port- 



william on Monreith Bay (1). 

 „ arvense L. Newton-Stewart (1) ; Sorbie (3) ; 



Portpatrick ; Cairnryan, &c. 

 ,, sylvaticum L. Not common. Shin Yalley (1) ; 



Cairnryan Glen ; The Lakes, Dunskey. 

 „ palustre L. Frequent. Barbuchany (1). 

 ,, limosum Sm. Bishoiaburnside (1) ; Ardwell 

 Mill-dam ; The Lakes, Dunskey ; Eavenstone ; 

 Castle-Kennedy Lochs ; Monreith Lake. 

 1822 Lycopodium selago L. Dowalton Loch; Kilitring'an Fell, 

 Portpatrick ; between Portpatrick and Stran- 

 raer. 

 „ clavatum L. Glenluce (5) ; between Portpat- 



rick and Stranraer. 

 Selaginella selaginoides Gray. Mull Head ; Capenoch 



Moss, &c. 

 Isoetes lacustris L. Loch Magillie, E. of Stranraer (2). 

 Pilularia globulifera L. Pound Pond, Castle-Kennedy (1). 

 Chara fragilis Desv. Barbuchany (1). 



„ polyacantha A. Br. Loch N. of Burrowhead and 



Loch N. of Cutreoch. 

 „ contraria Kuetz. N. of W. Tarbert. 

 ., vulgaris L. (fcetida, A. Br.) Mill Dam, Isle of T\niit- 

 horn; Capenoch Moor. 

 1857 Nitella opaca Agardh. Dowalton Loch ; Enoch, Portpat- 

 patrick. 



2. — Monastic Orders connected icith Dumfries and NeighbourJwod 



jOO Years Ago. 



By Mr James G. H. Starke, M.A. 



There have been many papers read to this Society upon the 

 history and architecture of the Monastic buildings in this district ; 

 but in none of them has more than a passing allusion been made 

 to the various Orders of Monks to whom they belonged, and it has 



