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places noi-tli of Port- William Glaucium luteum, Malva moschaia, 

 and a prostrate form of Vii:ia sylvatica are most conspicuous, and 

 south of Port-AVilliam Crainbe maritiina is in plenty. I saw one 

 field almost covered with wild carrot and another with bugloss. 

 Of ferns, the Parsley Fern, Green Spleenwort, and Cystopteris 

 fragilis seem to be absent. The Eoyal Fern, now rare, was 

 formerly very plentiful about Mochrum Loch, etc., but it has 

 sliared the fate of many other rare native plants — almost complete 

 extirpation. A person told me that in her youth it was cut and 

 dried to cover potatoes, &c., as brackens are commonly used, but 

 that it had been carried off in cartloads by fern vendoi's. Mr 

 Druce did not notice Ranunculus bulbosus in the county. Hyperi- 

 cum duhiuni is the most common St. John's wort, and Epilobiuni 

 obscurum the most common willow herb. The typical plants of 

 the county are Lepidium Smithii, (Enanthe Crocata (" hech-how ") 

 Carum verticillatum, and Jasione montana. The Kock Rose is 

 very rai'e and so is Golden Eod, so common in our sub-alpine 

 glens. Swine's Cress is very common, though very rare in the 

 Stewartry. Some of the shore plants become scarcer as we 

 proceed up the Solway Firth, while others seem to increase in 

 abundance. For instance, Scilla verna, the vernal squill, so 

 abundant in spring on the heughs of the west coast, does .not 

 occur to my knowledge east of the River Dee. Geranium 

 sanguineum, on the other hand, seems to increase in frequency as 

 we go eastwards, until we find it in plenty at Almorness. 

 Erodium cicutarium is very rare in the Stewartry but very 

 plentiful in such sandy spots as Port-Logan and Monreith Bay. 

 Scutellaria minor lias been recorded from only one or two stations 

 in Kirkcudbrightshire, whereas it is frequent in damp places 

 between Glenluce and Port-William. I could easily point out 

 other differences in the frequency, rarity, or absence of plants 

 from the two Galloways, but the above will sufHce. 



I have compared the lists from Wigtownshire and Kirkcud- 

 brightshire, and I find that while nearly seventy plants recorded 

 from the Stewartry have not yet been found in the " Shire," only 

 about twelve plants in Wigtownshire have not yet been noticed 

 in Kirkcudbrightshire. These are Sagina marifima, Spergularia 

 neglechi, Erodium maritimum, Carduus tenuiflorus, Bartsia viscosa, 

 Thymus clianurdrys, Lamiuni intermedium, Euphorbia parnlias, 

 E(]uisetum maximum, Isolepis savii, and Caucalis nodosa. The 

 most of these should be in the Stewartry. Those in Kirkcud- 



