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occurring ;it Thornliill, has evidently been mistaken for muricata, 

 wliicli diftbi's somewhat from tlie usual type standing somewhat 

 intermediate between imcric/cta and ^^seudo-dividsa. 



A few lines will dispense with the grasses. Milhim effusum I 

 found this season in Crawick Glen ; and in two new localities, 

 Nith Linns and on the banks of the Nith above EUiock Bridge, 

 I have gathered Poa iiemoralis. Festuca Myurus is pretty 

 common, and must have by mistake beeia noted in the Flora as 

 rare. 



For tiie wall rue and black maiden-hair ferns a few new 

 habitats have been noticed. Of the hart's tongue a scattered 

 remnant is still to be found on Cample, Nith, Aird's Linn, and in 

 Dalveen Pass. The brittle bladder fern may be found in almost 

 all the sub-alpine glens, and in Carron Water is most abundant. 

 Ophioglossum vufgatum, the adder's tongue fern, has been found 

 near Moniaive. The green spleenwort is almost extirpated from 

 Euchan Glen, and will probably soon be extinct. Of the club 

 mosses Lycopodium clavatum, alpinuin, and Selago are represented. 



The critical genera I have wittingly passed over, as I wish to 

 refer more particularly to these species apparently so little 

 studied. The Batrachian ranunculi have been examined by Mr 

 Fingland, and the following we are enabled to record : — Ranitn- 

 cuh(s peltatus, var. truncatus and Jlorihundus ; R. diversifolius, 

 var. Godronii ; R. Bavdotii, var. confnsus, all new to Dumfries- 

 shire. 



My investigation of the roses lias led to some important 

 additions. Rosa spinosissima, rare as an inland plant, I found 

 at EUiock Bridge on the Nith. A glandular variety of R. 

 tomentosa is very common at Sanquhar. The following are all 

 new additions : — Rosa molissima varieties, mollis and coiridea ; 

 and R. canina, six varieties, viz. — Lutetiana, dumalis, ReiUeri, 

 subcristata, Borreri, and arvatica. I may here record my in- 

 debtedness to Mr Arthur Bennett, without whose kind and 

 unstinted assistance I would have been unable to define these 

 varieties. I am also much indebted for his help with many other 

 species. Three new Callitriche have also been added, viz. — 

 hamulata, platycarpa, and stagnalis. 



Next come the willows. Of Salex pentandra a few plants 

 have been found on the Nith near Sanquhar, and in Ellioch, 

 Drumlanrig and Kirkconnel woods ; and strange to say all were 

 male specimens. It would be interesting to obsei've if the Gallo- 



