10 Transactions. 



8th November, 1894. 

 Mr James G. H. Starke, M.A., in the Chair. 



Nev! Member. — Captain William Stewart of Shambellie. 



Donations. — Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 

 North Carolina, 1893 ; Report of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for 1892 ; Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smith- 

 .sonian Institution ; and tlie Pamunkey Indians of Virginia ; the 

 Maya Year ; and tlie Bibliography of Wakashan Languages 

 (published by the same Bureau). 



Exhibit.— Mr Starke exhibited a Cell found at Goldielea a few 

 years ago. 



Communications. 



1. Botanical Notes for 1894- 



By James M'Andrew, New-Galloway. 



Wigtownshire. — During the past summer (1894) Mr Dugald 

 MacFarlane, B.A., Greenock, and I were fortunate in adding a 

 few moi-e new plants to the Flora of Wigtownshire. The following 

 six plants are new records for that county : — 1, Hanuncidus 

 Lenorniandi, growing in hill ditches cleaned out last year, on the 

 south side of Kilitringan Fell, Portpatrick, &c. ; 2, Ranunculus 

 circinatus, growing in abundance at the south end of Soulseat 

 Loch ; 3, Calaviintha acinos, with every appearance of being 

 wild, on an earth dyke between Castle-Kennedy Station and" 

 Soulseat Loch ; 4, Sisymbrium thaliana, at Port Kale, Port- 

 patrick (this is a spring plant, and has almost disappeared before 

 July or August) ; 5, Bromus sterilis, close to the gamekeeper's 

 cottage, Dunskey ; 6, Carex filiformis, found by the Rev. James 

 Gorrie, F.C., Sorbie, in Prestrie Loch, Whithorn. 



Among other interesting plants not formerly seen by me 

 around Portpatrick may be mentioned— i2ac?io^rt millegranna, in 

 several places among the moors ; Scrophularia aquatica, in a 

 ditch near the gamekeeper's cottage, Dunskey ; Pulicaria 

 dysenterica, on the grassy slopes between Portpatrick and 

 Dunskey Glen ; Juncus glaucus, Carex intermedia, Calystegia 

 soldanella, in Knock Bay ; EnpJiorbia portlandica, North of 

 Port o' Spital ; Lycopodium clavatum, on the old Stranraer road, 

 about four miles east of Portpatrick (this confirms this plant for 



