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Primula vulgaris) ; Puccinia suaveolens, Pers. (as fragrant sper- 

 mogonia on Cnicus arvensis) ; P. oblongata, Link, (uredospores 

 on Luzula maxima); P. bunii, DC. (on Couopodium deviudatum) ; 

 P. glomcrata, Grev. (on Senecio Jacoboia) ; P. valantioi, Pers. (on 

 Galium saxatile) ; Triiihragmium ulmaria', Schuns. (primary 

 uredospores on Spircea Ulmaria) ; Cystopus candidus, Pers. (on 

 Capsella Bursa-pastoris) ; Bhopographus filicinus, Fr. (on dead 

 stems of Pteris aquilina). 



liWEKKip AND The Clock, 11th June, 1904. Conductor, Mr. 

 John R. Lee. — The route followed was along the shore road 

 from Inverkip, past the Cloch Lighthouse, to Ashton. As the 

 interest of the members of the party was mainly botanical, the 

 observations made were exclusively confined to the flora of the 

 locality. A search was made for plants of interest, first amongst 

 the shrubbery and woods by the roadside from Inverkip village 

 to the point where the road emerges upon the shore, then along 

 the shore itself for a short distance, afterwards returning to the 

 woods and roaxiside for the remainder of the journey. 



In the woods near Inverkip a number of plants of the great 

 pendulous sedge {Carex pendula, Huds.) were found. Amongst 

 other plants noted in the woods, those of more esiDecial interest 

 were Carex remota, L., and Aspidium angulare, Willd. Amongst 

 mosses, the most noteworthy was Weisia verticiUata, Brid., found 

 in clefts of the sandstone rocks at the back of the woods, fruiting 

 freely — a somewhat unusual occurrence. There falls to be re- 

 corded also from these woods the hepatic Saccogyna viticulosa, 

 Mich., which does not appear as a Renfrewshire species in the 

 recently published " Census of Scottish Hepaticse," by Mr. S. M. 

 M'Vicar. It would appear, therefore, that this is the first record 

 for the county of this common liverwort. On the shore the 

 most interesting plant observed was Cerastium, tetrandrum, 

 Curtis. The moss, Orthotrichum, affine, Schrad., was found 

 abundant on a low stone Avail near the shore, in fine fruit. 



The most interesting find of the day, however, was Wahlen- 

 bergia htderacea, Reich., of which there is an old record for 

 this locality, although it does not seem to have been noted of 

 lat€ years. The plant does not flower until July, and only the 

 leaves were visible at the time of our visit; but a specimen 



