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way plants, or those found in other parts of tlie country, present 

 this peculiarity. <S'. Cajwea, cinerea, aurita, and purpurea are 

 common. The following are additions : — S. phylicifolia, var. 

 Davalliana and tenuior ; S. nigricans ; S. triandra and Salix 

 cinerea, var. aquatica. Two new carices — C. 2^6ndula and C. 

 aquatilis, var. Watsoni — fall to be added. 



I gathered four different brambles, and after vainly endeavour- 

 ing to decipher them I sent them to Professor Babingtou, who 

 found some difficulty in naming them, as the specimens sent were 

 not very carefully prepared. The names accorded them he did 

 did not wish to be considered perfectly correct ; nevertheless 1 

 think it better to give them. They are^Eubus Koehleri, plicatus 

 ramosus, and carpinifolius. 



So far, although close attention has been paid to the Hieracia 

 (Hawkweeds), I have been unable to discover any other than the 

 two commonest — H. mdgatum, var. nemorostim, and //. murorum 

 — and I am somewhat sui'prised that this part of the shire can 

 show no other varieties in an order where varieties are so 

 numerous. Nitella Ojmca and N. transhicens are the only repre- 

 sentatives of the Characere found in the district. 



It now remains to briefly notice the few remaining plants not 

 hitherto, or only doubtfully, recorded as natives of Dumfriesshire. 

 First on the list comes Thalictrum majus, var. Jlexuosum, found 

 in a few places on the Nith above Drumlanrig. Dianthus 

 Armeria, hitherto unknown in the south west of Scotland, I 

 discovered near Auldgirth, in a locality tliat almost excludes any 

 chance of it being an escape. Potenlilla irrocumbens is not 

 uncommonly met with at and south of Auldgiith ; while P. 

 reptans has not been met with. In Cleuchhouse Linn, Keir, and 

 on the Nith near Sanquhar, a few specimens of Geum intermedium 

 have been found. Hypericum hirsutum, previously only reported 

 from Kirkcudbright, appears in many places on the Nith. 

 OrnitJiopus perpusillus and Malva moschata also claim to be con- 

 sidered natives. The varieties, palustre of Taraxacum ojiciiiale, 

 Leontodon hirtus, and Leontodon autumnalis (var. pratensis), fall 

 to be added to the list of compositse. Galium Mollugo I gathered 

 near Sanquhar; and on the Nith near Thornhill specimens of 

 Di]}sacus sylvestris and Polygonum Bistorta were found. Poly- 

 gonum amphibiicm and Peplis 2>orhda may also be noted as 

 probable additions. The only new potamogeton is P. pusillus, 

 var. tenuissimus, which Mr Fingland found growing adundantly 



