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have been denied to me ; the records that he has kindly furnished, where 

 my own were deficient, are acknowledged bj^ being placed in brackets, with 

 his initials. 



The observational work for this paper was done in the field chiefly during 

 the summer and autumn of 1905. The preparation for the press has been 

 considerably retarded by other duties ; hence the delay in the publication of 

 the paper, for which I apologise. 



Since the first part of this contribution was written a number of changes 

 in nomenclature have been suggested. As it would appear to savour 

 of inconsistency, besides adding an element of confusion, to give the same 

 plant a diflferent name in the second part of a publication to that which it 

 bore in the first part, I have acknowledged the change in most cases by 

 adding the new name in italics enclosed by brackets, after the old name, in 

 the Sj^stematic List of Plants. 



In order to facilitate comparison, I have included in the succeeding 

 Systematic List of Plants the numerals that represent the Areas discussed 

 in a former contribution (ante, p. 971); a few plants, however, are enumer- 

 ated there that are not mentioned in this paper. The whole of the Areas 

 at present examined are therefore included in the following list, and the 

 occurrence of the plants in each of the seven Areas investigated is indicated 

 by the numerals after the authority, viz. — 



I. The Ness Area. 



II. Island of Lismore. 



III. Lochs of Nairn. 



IV. N.W. Kirkcudbrightshire. 

 V. S.E. Kirkcudbrightshire. 



VI. Wigtownshire. 

 VII. Fife and Kinross. 



The remarks after the numerals in the following list, unless especially 

 indicated, refer only to Areas IV. to VII. inclusive. I hope to deal in a 

 future contribution with the internal and external morphology of some of 

 the plants ; such matters are therefore excluded from the present pages. 



