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met with, and iu two places the i-are Santbitciis Jibulus finds a 

 quiet retreat. On the banks of the Nith Galium cruciahim and 

 G. boreale are frequently met with, the latter in great abundance. 

 In Euchan Glen the melancholy plume thistle, C. heterophyllus, 

 is very common ; while in Crawick, its only other station, it is 

 rather scarce. Bidens cernua favours only the common loch, 

 Thornhill. The yellow Leopard's bane, Doronicum Parda- 

 lia7iches, grows in abundance at Nith Linns, and also, although 

 less so, at Morton Mill. Crepis j^C'ludosa has been found in 

 Nith Linns and Camplecleugh, the specimen from the latter place 

 being unicephalous, a variety Mr A. Bennett has not hitherto met 

 with. Camjmnula lutifolia, Pyrola minor, and Symphi/tuin tuber- 

 osum is fairly well distributed ; the latter, I think, is probably 

 indigenous in the Nith below Holmhill. Sy'mj>hytuin officinale is 

 somewhat common and general. At Sanquhar Castle a few 

 plants of Anchusa semper virens still flourish. Mr Fingland has 

 reported the presence of Erythrcea littoralis near the Brow Well 

 as probably a new species for Dumfries. The wood betony, 

 Stuchys Betonica, though abundant on Euchan and the Nith as 

 far as EUiock Bridge, has not been discovered elsewhere. 

 Galeopsis versicolor is not uncommon in Moniaive, Sanquhar, and 

 Thornliill parishes. Lamium amplexicaide has only been found 

 in one locality, near Sanquhar. On the railway embankment 

 near Birscar a few plants of Verbascttm Thapsiis were seen, and 

 on the broom all around Auldgirth and Glenmidge the Orobanche 

 major may be considered common. 



Polygonatum multijlorum no longer grows at Tibbers Castle, but 

 a few specimens still maintain their ground in the wood near 

 Thornhill. Whether the Sparyaniuui, simply found in a few 

 places near Thornhill, is new to Dumfries cannot be decided by 

 reference to the local Flora. At Ronaldstoun and Glenmidge, 

 Auldgirth, and a few other places, I'otamogeton rufescens is not 

 uncommon. 



Hcirpus sylvaticus is very common in many places on the Nith 

 and S. acicularis was found this season at the Townfoot Loch by 

 Mr Fingland. The local Flora is, I find, no true record of the 

 Dumfriesshire Carices. Carex dioca, vmricata, curta, hirta, 

 reviota, Icevigata, and sylvatica may all be considered common. 

 For C. paniculata two new habitats are recorded. C. vesicaria 

 has been found in only one place, at Kirkbog, Thornhill. Loch 

 Urr is a new habitat for C. paucijlorce. C. teretiicscula, given as 



