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plant, however, is still plentiful on the opposite 

 side, Avhere it extends along the margin of the old 

 bend of the river from a point nearly opposite 

 Messrs. Thomson's shipbuilding yard at Clj-debank 

 to tirskine Ferry. The question whether it will 

 long remain in this station can only be decided by 

 the operations of the Clyde Trustees, and at present 

 they are filling up the margin near the east end of 

 the old bend. Let us hope, however, that a long 

 time will elapse before these plants disappear en- 

 tirely from the upper reaches of the Clyde. 



From the Dalmuir Works westward to Old Kil- 

 patrick most of the ground consists of reclaimed 

 marsh, but with this difference, that for half a mile the 

 river-side has been built up so as to form a broad 

 bank; and as the waste ground from the bank to 

 the border of the fields has been left at the old 

 marsh-level, some of the plants already mentioned 

 still grow there. Onward to Old Kilpatrick the 

 ground is partly under cultivation, but towards 

 Bowling we have again soft marsh varied with 

 grassy tufts, on which the Sea Pink {Armeria maH- 

 tima, Willd.) first makes its appearance, along with 

 Glyceria maritima, Wahl. In the vicinity is Ken- 

 nedy's station for Scirpiis {Blysiyius) riifiis, Wahlb , 

 which, however, is slowly being washed away. Last 

 year I could not see a single plant where formerly 

 I used to find from twelve to twenty. Towards 

 Bowling there is sandy beach; from Bowling to 

 Dunglass Castle, reclaimed land ; and from Dunglass 

 to Dumbarton the margin remains in much the 

 same condition as in Kennedy's time, viz., soft marsh 

 with grassy tufts. (Enanthe Lachenalii, Grmel., is 

 still plentiful here, as recorded by Kennedy, but 

 apparently does not grow elsewhere in the district. 



The following are some of the rarer plants found in 

 the parish of Old Kilpatrick. Except in a few cases, 

 which are specially noticed, no Dumbartonshire 

 localities are given for any of these plants by 

 Kennedy, or in the Funna atid Fhnu. The species 



