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of the Dodders, and their occurrence in our district, as recorded, 

 and read letters from llev. Dr. Laudsborough and Mr. John 

 Borland regarding the records in Arran and Ayrshire. 



" The records, apparently referring to what is now called 

 Epilinum, so far as I can ascertain, are : — 



" Hopkirk — Mora Glottiana, 1813 — 'C. Epithymum, on heath 

 and thyme — rare ; on stalks of flax, about Hamilton and Wood- 

 hall.' 



"Patrick — Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire, 1831 — ' C. euro- 

 paea, on flax, at Camei'on, New Monkland — rare.' ' C. Epithymum, 

 on flax, at Hamilton, but I have not seen it there myself ; ' as if 

 he had seen the other. 



'• Rev. D. Landsborough, LL.D., Kilmarnock, supplies the fol- 

 lowing information regarding Arran and Ayrshire : — 



" {New) Statistical Account of Kilbride Parish, Arran, written 

 1837, revised 1840. List of rarer plants given by Rev. David 

 Landsborough, Stevenston, includes C. europaea. 



" The plant appears under the name of C. europaea, in the 

 first edition of Excursions to Arran, by Rev. D. Landsborough 

 (father), published in 1847, but in the second edition, published 

 in 1857, it is given thus : — ' Cuscuta Epilinum. Lamlash, among 

 flax.' So also in the third edition, published by Rev. D. Lands- 

 borough (son). 



"A list of the plants of Ayrshire, published in 1872 by the late 

 Mr. Borland, Kilmarnock, the late Mr. Duncan, Troon, and the 

 Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock, gives — ' C. Epilinum, para- 

 sitic on furze, Troon, B,' showing that the plant had been found 

 by Mr. Borland. 



" Hennedy, in his Clydesdale Flora, the first edition of which 

 was published in 1865, says — 'C. europaea and C. Epithymum, 

 are both noticed, the latter in Hopk. Fl. G., and both in Patr. 

 Ind. PI. Lan., as having been found on flax : may they not be 

 C. Epilinum 2 ' He says of Epilinum — ' Rare, parasitical on 

 flax, not native, but introduced with flax-seed,' gives ' near 

 Chryston ' as a locality, and quotes ' Mr. Duncan ' as an 

 authority for it having been found ' near Kilsyth,' and Lands- 

 borough for ' Arran.' 



" In the fifth edition, 1891, the editor, the late Professor King, 

 has a note to the species — 'extinct.' 



