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Githago segetum I have yet seen. The variety Riviniana of the 

 wood violet is very common, but Viola canina has not beeti 

 found. 



The wood stitchwort Stellaria nemorum, generally a somewhat 

 rare plant, grows plentifully in the woods from Auldgirth to 

 Drumlanrig ; and the rare Sagina nodosa favours only the Pass 

 of Dalveen. 



Geranium sylvatimvi, though generally twice as rare as G. 

 jjratense, is in all Nithsdale very common ; while G. pratense 

 is comparatively rare. The shining crane's-bill, G. lucidrmn, given 

 in the Flora as an escape, grows in Clauchrie Glen and Cample, 

 on rocky, not easily accessible, spots, and may be considered 

 undoubtedly indigenous ; in some other places it is, however, 

 not so. 



The pretty Genista tinctoria we found in two localities only, 

 Scaur Water and Campleslacks, and the Genista anglica only at 

 the New Loch, Thornhill. Ulex Gallii, Mr Fingland observed 

 this season near the Brow Well, Dumfries. Vicia Orobus, 

 recorded in the Flora Scotica as growing near Sanquhar, has been 

 found abundant in Euchan Glen ; and in the valley of the 

 Crawick, on the opposite side of the Nith, a large patch of the 

 beautifully pencilled vetch V. sylvatica was found. For Rubies 

 Chanuemorus, R, saxatilis, and Saxifraga hypnoides many new 

 localities could be given. The pretty starry Saxifrage, Saxifraga 

 stellaris, grows in bright profusion on the Caple at Queensberry ; 

 in a few places in Clauchrie Glen .S*. granulata was discovered. 

 Chrysosplenium aUernifolium and Sedum viliosum are both more 

 common than might be supposed. Among the epilobes E. 

 angusti/olitini as an escape grows in abundance near Sanquhar, 

 and in a few places on the hills of Dalveen and Cample. F. 

 hirsutum is, however, rare, being only found in two places near 

 Thornhill. Friars' Carse marks the northern limit of a good few 

 plants, such as Lythrum Salicaria, Cicuta virosa, Lysimachia 

 vulgaris, Smitellaria galericulata, and Solanum dulcamara. For 

 Helosciadium inundatum and CEnanthe crocata a good few new- 

 habitats have been allotted, the latter being in many parts some- 

 what common, while JEthusa Cynapiu^n and Daticus Carota can 

 only claim two localities each north of Auldgirth. The common 

 hemlock Mr Fingland found this year at Carlaverock and Loch- 

 maben, but was in neither place abundant. In the Drumlanrig 

 and Sanquhar woods the Viburnum Oprilus is frequently to be 



