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entirely from roadside observation, which I think are to be not 

 despised. In some highly cultivated districts tlie roadside may 

 form about the only refuge for hard pressed species. CorydaUs 

 clavicuhtta is not very frequently met with, but may be seen from 

 the road between Clarencefield and Brow Well on the edge of a 

 wood. Galium cruciatuvi bulks largely as a roadside species about 

 Clarencefield and further south. It is scarcer in the north 

 of the county ; but probably the Sanquhar district is the only 

 one where it is absent. Galium Mollur/o puts in an appear- 

 ance near Clarencefield, and increases in some parts of the road, 

 especially between Dornock and Gretna. It formed a striking 

 feature, climbing and overtopping the hedges on the wayside with 

 its large panicles of numerous white flowers, fully expanded at 

 that time. Some specimens grew so luxuriantly as to measure 

 between five and six feet in length. Another plant met more 

 frequently in passing southwards was Poterium Sanguism'ha. Near 

 Cummertrees Orobmche major was gathered, and also Filagu 

 germanica, which I am not sui-e whether to regard as native or 

 not. In passing out of the county towards Longtown a fine 

 display of the handsome and showy flowers of Scabiosa arvensis 

 was met with, accompanied witli Daucas carota. Near Canonbie 

 Impatiens Noli-me-tangere looked like a thriving escape. Close to 

 the town of Langholm Vicia sylvatica and Carex sylvatica could be 

 gathered plentifully from the road. My intention was to have 

 made some examination of Eskdale in the interest of the botanical 

 section of our Natural History Society, but stormy and wet 

 weather here intervened and completely stopped any field work. 

 My leisure time being limited, I had to abandon my intentions, 

 and leave it perhaps to some other member of this Society to 

 provide us with records from that district. 



II. Recent Additions to the British Flora. 

 By Mr Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 

 I have taken the Seventh Edition of the London Catalogue of 

 British Plants as my starting point, and will briefly notice some 

 of the plants which have been recorded since its publication. 

 Probably at no era in British Botany have so many new plants 

 been recorded. A prediction made somewliere about 1850, in a 

 critique of one of the later editions of Hooker's and Arnott's 

 " Flora," proves how little such results were then thought of. 

 The Reviewer says — " Probably few, if any, real additions remain 



