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cudbriglitshire. Epilobuon obscurtim (Schrib.), Filago germanica, 

 Centaur ea nigra var. radians are all additional. 



Of Hieracia, IT. coryiahosum and H. trideiitatum are observed 

 in plenty in the Kenmure district by Mr M'Andrew ; and a 

 form supposed by Prof. Babington to be H. vulgatum was 

 collected by Messrs M 'Andrew and Coles on lofty rocks in the 

 Carsphairn hills in July of this year. Many other species in this 

 difficult genus should be found in Dumfriesshire. 



A curiously dwarf and broad-leaved Centaury, noticed by 

 Messrs Robert Watson and Coles on the Borness shore, proves 

 to be the var. B. cajntata of E. centaurium ; it is deceptively like 

 the E. latifolia. 



Linaria minor, near Lochmaben Station (F. W. Grierson) ; 

 Veronica monta'iia, L., in great abundance in St. Mary's Isle 

 (R. "Watson) ; forms of Mentlui officinalis (under M. pijjerita) ; 

 and what may prove a transitional form between M. hirsuta and 

 M. jnibescens were noted this season by Mr Coles, who had also 

 Eumex conglomeratus, and the following Pondweeds to report 

 from his own district : — P. mucronatios, Schrad., in Carlingwark 

 Loch ; P. Zizii, M. et K., in the Tarff, where also P. lucens var. 

 acuminatus and P. jjrcelongus luxuriate ; P. jnisillus var. tenuis- 

 sima, in great quantities in a mill dam in Kelton. With 

 P. 2)ectinatus and P. htcens, collected by Gray many years ago, 

 our total of Pondweeds reaches to 15. 



A notable discovery by Mr Coles was made in regard to A Ilium 

 carinatuvi, L., which much-discussed species he found in August 

 this year growing vigorously, and with every appearance of its 

 being native, on the shrub-entangled shingle of what is known 

 as the shore of " the Lake " below Kirkcudbright. After care- 

 ful scrutiny, in conjunction with Mr Robert Watson, Rector of 

 the Kirkcudbright Academy, of the locality, and a detailed cor- 

 respondence with Mr Ar. Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, weight of 

 opinion seemed to lie on the side of the Allium being very 

 probably indigenous in this place (and equally so in the vicinity 

 of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, where Mr Watson had known the 

 plant to exist for three years.) This was found to have been 

 planted by Dr Grierson. 



Juncus obtusijlorus, Ehrh., of which the only record was so far 

 back as 1837-44, is found by M'Andrew in a new habitat in 

 Colvend, who also confirms the station for Carex aquatilis var. 

 Watsoni, Synie. 



