182 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



XIX. 



NOTES ON THE RARER PLANTS OF THE 

 PA RISH OF OLD KILPA TRICK. 



BY L. WATT. 



[Read 2oth March, 1890.] 



In the Clydesdale Flora of Professor Kennedy, numer- 

 ous localities are j?iven for plants which grow in 

 the neighbourhood of Glasgow, but these include 

 comparatively few in the parish of Old Kilpatrick. 

 The number is considerably increased, however, in 

 the Fmina and Flora of the West of Scotland, 

 published in 1876. 



That the records of the rarer plants of the parish 

 are so few is scarcely, perhaps, to be wondered at 

 when the nature of the ground is taken into 

 account. The Kilpatrick Hills, which lie on the 

 north side of the River Clyde, and rise to a con- 

 siderable altitude, are composed of basaltic-trap rock, 

 and are intersected by numerous streams, which in 

 some cases flow through deep gorges, forming glens 

 of no small beauty. These streams, in their rapid 

 descent to the lower ground, flow over successive 

 falls of greater or less height before reaching the 

 waters of the Clyde, Endrick, and Kelvin. The 

 principal local tributaries of these rivers are the 

 Overtoun Burn on the west, the Lusset Burn at 

 Kilpatrick, and Loch Humphrey and Cochno Burns 

 on the east, all which find their way into the Clyde. 

 On the north side are the Crux and Finnich Burns 

 which flow into the Endrick, and the Allander 

 which finds its way into the Kelvin, but these 



