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euibankments ; and Erysimum cheiranthoides, near the railway 

 station, a casual far removed from its native liabitat, the fen 

 districts of England. 



Before dismissing this subject one plant deserves special 

 notice. Tlii.s is a carex, new, as far as I am awai'e, to Scot- 

 land. It is common on the higher hills, and its form is 

 probably familiar to most of you, who, on the authority of the 

 local catalogue, have passed it over as C. (Ederi. I knew the 

 plant was not C. (Ederi, as I had gathered the latter on an 

 excursion in the north, but I did not consult any authority on 

 the subject till this season, when I submitted it to Mr Bennett, 

 who pronounced it to be C. Jiava, minor (Townsend). Carex 

 (Ederi, with which it has possibly been confounded, I have failed 

 to discover, and doubted its existence until Mr Pingland, Thorn- 

 hill, showed me some specimens gathered from some locality near 

 Ruthwell. These remarks then comprise all I can record as new 

 to the county, but do not by any means indicate all that has 

 been done in Upper Nithsdale and elsewhere. Mr Brown, 

 Auchenhessnane, has found Laihcea Squamaria in the woods 

 there. Mr James Fingland, Thornhill, has added many new 

 habitats and not a few new species to the Flora of Dumfriesshire. 



Before taking farewell of this subject I have thought the 

 present an opportune time for recording the census I have taken 

 of the plants in Sanquhar Parish. These of course may by more 

 careful examination and analysis be increased, but up to the 

 present time 440 species and varieties have been found, and their 

 localities separately recorded for future reference, or for the use 

 of this Society if the members so will it. Of these 440, 7 are 

 casuals introduced with or as seeds, 10 are garden escapes, and 

 14 are planted trees or shrubs. These numbers may seem small 

 when compared with those recorded from more southerly parishes, 

 with moi"e productive soil, and more congenial climate, yet when 

 we consider the comparative sterility of this district, with its 

 cultivated fields but plots in a dreary waste of heath and moor- 

 land, this number is remarkable, and I fondly hope, if future 

 years see additions to their number, that I may be the fortunate 

 contributor. 



