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a systematic exploration of tlie district in our iieighbourliootl. This 

 year, though my migration to Sanquhar sevei-ed the partnership so 

 mutually beneticial, Mr Fingland has continued and extended his 

 exploration of the district, so as to include the pai-ts surrounding 

 Dumfi'ies ; while I have in my leisure hours prospected the 

 Sanquhar and Kirkconnel parishes ; and the combined work has 

 resulted in the discovery of about 200 new localities for these 

 plants already recognised denizens of tlie county, and 46 new 

 species or varieties. Tlie main tield of investigation may roughly 

 be said to include the whole valley of the Nith from Dalswinton 

 to Kirkconnel. Time will not allow my treating this subject in 

 the complete manner it ought to be done, so I will confine myself 

 to the positive aspect of the question ; and, taking the local Flora 

 as my guide, I will first of all enumerate some of the new 

 localities for the rarer species, with short references to those 

 plants common elsewhere perhaps, but rare in Nitlisdale ; and in 

 the second place, consider those new to Dumfriesshire. 



Naturally the HanuTiciili is first of all to be considered. 

 Ranunculus Flammula, sub-species reptans, recorded as growing 

 at Lochmaben, has been mistaken for var. pseudo-replans, .a very 

 much more common plant ; though the only other locality where 

 I have found perfect specimens is near Garrich, Thornliill. R. 

 hirsutus was found at Ruthwell by Mr Fingland. I sliow here 

 a specimen of the yellow lily from the Black Loch, Sanquhar, 

 and I think there is no doubt it is Nuphar intermedia, not N. 

 jnimila. Sm. Tlie Celandine, Chelidonium majus, as an escape, is 

 well established in a few places at Thornhill and Carronbridge. 

 For Corrjdalis cfaviculata, one new locality, Cleuchhouse Linn, 

 Keir, has been added ; and Ruthwell locality has been confirmed 

 by J. Fingland. Arabis thaliana, Barbarea vulgaris, and Car- 

 damine aiiiara may be considered fairly common, the latter 

 particularly so. On the rocks in the Dalveen Pass we found 

 Arabis hirsiUa in a good few places. In Locli Mailing, Auld- 

 girth, and Lochmaben the marsh rocket, Nasturtium pahistre, is 

 not unfrequent. The common scurvy grass, Cochlearia officinalis, 

 rare as an inland plant, grows in fair abundance in Camplecleughj 

 Water of JE, and Euchan. Of the Caryophyllea, three only 

 require to be noticed — Lychnis vespertina, which is not uncommon 

 in the Thornhill district, and the variety, puberula of Silene 

 inflata, found in a wood near Thornhill and near Cample. In a 

 tield near Sanquhar, I this season gathered the only specimens of 



