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Thus it is seen that until 1883 almost nothing was done in tlie Avay 

 of making a complete list of Wigtownshire plants. To this list i 

 have added at least 20 species hitherto unrecorded, and these from 

 only two localities, viz., around Portpatrick in 1886, and around 

 Port-William in 1887. Comparatively little now remains to be 

 done as regards the Flora of Wigtownshire except to add a few 

 additional species from time to time, and to note new stations for 

 the rarer ones. Many plants not recorded from our three south- 

 western counties in the Second Edition of Watson's " Topographi- 

 cal Botany " are yet given in our local Flora, which unfortunately 

 was not available when this second edition was issued. As the 

 matter at present stands it is bewildering to ascertain what plants 

 have been recorded from this district and what have not, and 

 therefore to pledge myself to perfect accuracy on this point would 

 be impossible. This will, no doubt, be remedied in tlie third 

 edition, for which Mr Arthur Bennett is collecting material. The 

 plants new to AVigtownshire in 1886 from Portpatrick are :— 

 Botrychium lunaria, Cakilc 7iiatitima, Raphanus rap/tanisfrum, 

 Arenaria iritwrvis, Ctrcaa lutetiana, Juuipcrus comuiunis, Ccrasliuin 

 ietrandrutti, Veronica hedincjolia, Leontodon /lir/us, Euphorbia 

 paralias ; and at Port-William this year I gathered new to Wig- 

 townshire : — Carcx pwictaia, Carex paludosa, Sagitia apetala, 

 Astragalus glycyphyllos. Cha-iophyllum tetmdentum, Lysimachia 

 vulgaris, Typha iatifolia, Scolopendriuin vulgare, Atnmophtla 

 arenaria, and Blysmus ru/us. Of these tlie two most interesting 

 plants are Carex punctata and Euphorbia paralias. Tliis gives 

 another county record for the rare Carex punctata for Scotland. 

 It has been found in Scotland before only by the Rev. James 

 Fraser, Colvend, at Glenstocking, in his own parish. I gathered 

 it at Craigs of Garchcw, six miles north of Port-William. 

 Euphorbia paralias I found last year at Morroch Bay, south of 

 Portpatrick, and this year on the shingle north of Port-William. 

 Hitherto it has been recorded for Scotland only from Fife as an 

 introduced plant. 



As the natural features of the two Galloways, East and West, 

 are considerably different in many respects, it would be difficult 

 to say which county has the greater number of Howeriug jjlants, 

 but there can be no doubt as to the very marked superiority of 

 Kirkcudbrightshire in the variety and abundance of its crypto- 

 gams. As for as present lists go, the Stewartry has also a decided 

 advantage in the number of its phanerogams. Wigtowusliire has 



