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cudbrightshire or Dumfriesshire, and most of them in both of these 
counties, and nearly all of them in the adjacent county of Ayr :— 
Ranunculus Lingua, Linn.; Ranunculusauricomus, Linn.; Stellaria 
glauca, With. ; Stellaria nemorum, Linn. ; Geranium sylvaticum, 
Linn. ; Chrysosplenium alternifolium, Linn.; Knautia arvensis, 
Coult.; Leontodon hispidus, Linn.; Carduus heterophyllus, Linn. ; 
Vaccinium Vitis-Idea, Linn. ; Galeopsis versicolor, Curt. ; Scirpus 
sylvaticus, Linn.; Cardamine amara, Linn. ; Miliwm effuswm, 
Linn. ; Melica nutans, Linn. ; and many others. There is a 
singular absence of alpine and sub-alpine plants in Wigtownshire 
—the results of its low elevation. The two geraniums, Geranium 
pratense, Linn., and G. sylvaticum, Linn., so plentiful in some 
districts, are in Wigtownshire almost entirely absent. I have 
never seen the latter in the county, and of the former only a few 
plants at High Drummore, near the Mull of Galloway. Brassica 
monensis, Huds., is another plant which is plentiful at Ayr, and 
at Southerness in Kirkcudbrightshire, but which I have never 
gathered in Wigtownshire, though Prof. Balfour recorded it for 
this county. The same remark applies to Genista anglica, Linn., 
and Galiwm Cruciata, Scop., and a few others. Avena pubescens, 
Huds., and var. radians of Centaurea nigra, Linn., and the three 
forms of Alchemilla vulgaris, Linn., as given in the “ Annals of 
Scottish Natural History,” for January, 1895, viz., (a) pratensis 
(Scop.); (b) alpestris (Schmidt) ; and (c) filicaulis (Buser), are found 
frequently in Wigtownshire and Kirkeudbrightshire. 
The following are good plants for Wigtownshire :—Lepigonum 
rupestre, Lebel; Hypericum Androsemum, Linn.; Malva rotundi- 
folia, Linn.; Zrodium maritimum, L’Heérit.; Trifolium striatum, 
Linn.; Astragalus hypoglottis, Linn.; Astragalus glycyphyllos, 
Linn.; Oxytropis uralensis, DC.; Vicia lutea, Linn.; Vicia 
lathyroides, Linn.; Prunus Padus, Linn.; Rubus Sprengelii, 
Weihe ; Sedum Rhodiola, DC. ; Siwm erectum, Huds. ; Crithmum 
maritimum, Linn.; Galium Mollugo, Linn., var. Bakeri, Syme ; 
Inula crithmoides, Linn. ; Artemisia maritima, Linn. ; Carduus 
tenuiflorus, Curt. ; Statice awriculefolia, Vahl; Mertensia 
maritima, Don ; Convolvulus Soldanella, Linn. ; Scrophularia 
aquatica, Linn.; Orobanche rubra, Sm.; Scutellaria minor 
Huds. ; Zuphorbia portlandica, Linn.; Orchis pyramidalis, Linn. ; 
Allium vineale, Linn. ; Scirpus Savii, Sebast, and Mauri; Cladiwm 
