22 • Botanical Notks. 



considering its bluntness. See liis article from which this quota- 

 tion is made, April or May, 1895. 



Communications. 



I. — Botanical Notes for iSgs- By Mr James M'Andrew, of 

 New Galloway. 



Ill July 1895 I spent a fortnight at New Luce in AVigtownshire 

 in hope of gathering there some of the plants of the inland part of 

 the county. I was not altogether disappointed, though the dis- 

 trict has not a particularly rich or varied flora. Except in the 

 valleys of the Main and Cross waters of Luce, the surrounding 

 district is moorland. However, here and at Portpatrick I found 

 the following ten plants, as new records for Wigtownshire, to be 

 added to my former list : — 



1. Hieracium gotkicuiii (Fr.), Backh. In the bed of Luce 



Water. 



2. Hieracium anratum (Fr.), Do. do. 



3. Galium mollugo, var. Balccri, Syme, At New Luce railway 



viaduct, 

 ■i. HymenophyUam. unilaterale, Willd. At Barnshangan Bridge 

 and at Loups of Kilfeather, New Luce. 



5. Centaurea nigra var. radians. Frequent at New Luce and 



Portpatrick. 



6. Melainpjjrum pratense var. moiitanuiii. Near New Luce. 



The var. hians occurs at Pularyan Glen. 



7. Utricularia intermedia. Airieolland Loch, New Luce. 



8. Barharea stricia. Sent to me by Mr. R. C. Lupton, school- 



house, New Luce, and found growing along the Cross 

 Water ; perhaps an outcast. 



9. Calamagrostis epigeios, Roth. Knock Bay, Portpatrick. 



This is, as far as I am aware, the first record of this grass 

 for the south-western counties of Scotland. 

 10. Potamogeton perfoliatus. Loclinaw Loch. 

 It is about sixty years since Dr Macnab recorded Cladium ger- 

 manicum or mariscus, for Ravenstone Loch, AVigtownshire. Since 

 then it has not been seen in the county, but this year I was fortun- 

 ate in finding a tuft of this rush in a Loch west of New Luce, thus 

 confirming this plant for the county, thougli not for the old locality. 



