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making a careful calculation. In the instances of early flowering I 

 have given I do not think the atmospheric heat (which did not 

 begin till June) sufficiently accounts for the phenomena, but that 

 the sunshine of the earlier dry months had a share in it. 



In giving a summary of results for 1887, I am indebted to Dr 

 Davidson, Sanquhar, for some notes from his district. The finds 

 of most interest which he reports are Scabiosa arvensis, at Drum- 

 buie ; Arabis hirsuta, Kello Linns ; Veronica hederafolia, Phlciini 

 are liar ia., and Lolitim tei)iulentum vaiiety arveiise, from the river 

 side at Sanquhar ; Cerasiium seinidecandrii/n, from Crawick ; and 

 Potcntilla argciifea, near Holywood. Two of these at least, if not 

 three, are additions to our Flora. Mr John Corrie, Moniaive, has 

 made two good finds, both in his own parish of Glencairn. One is 

 a valuable addition to our family of native Orchids in Afalaxis 

 paliidosa, although Dr Gi'ierson informs me since that he collected 

 the same plant a number of years ago in the parish of Keir, but 

 does not know M-hether it now exists there or not. The other 

 plant is Carex irrigua, a locality for which has hitherto been a 

 desideratum. In the Thornhill district I have to add Callitriche 

 autiunnalis and Niiella flexilis from the parish of Closeburn. Two 

 other additions to the county are Carex CEderi, for certain at last, 

 growing in considerable quantity in a dried-up pond near Auld- 

 girth, and Utricularia intermedia, found at Loch Urr. Two more 

 plants, Stachys betonica and Hippuris vulgaris, are new to the dis- 

 trict. The former I gathered near Auldgirth, this new locality, 

 therefore, becoming a link between the only other two localities 

 for it at Sanquhar and Caerlaverock in the Nith valley ; the 

 latter plant was found in Closeburn, but the specimens of it 

 there were rather dwarfed. Mr Corrie and I met with a very 

 luxuriant growth of the same plant in Fingland Lane, Kirkcud- 

 brightshii'e, alongst with Potamogeton nifescens, Sparganium 

 mitiimmn, and Carex paniaiiata. In critical genera Rosa toinen- 

 tosa, var. scabriusciila is an addition and a variety of Rosa 

 canina between ^^ arvatica" and " Waisonii." There has also been 

 found a variety of Rosa mollis, " psuedo-rubiginosa," on the Nith, 

 which will, I think, be new to Scotland, as Mr Bennett of 

 Croydon, who kindly named it for me, and also sent the specimen 

 to Mr Baker of Kew, to have it confirmed, informs me that it has 

 only hitherto been found in York and Surrey. In brambles, 

 Rubus macrophyllus and Rubits Jimbrosiis have been found near 

 Annan, and Koelileri at Auldgirth. In Mints, the subglabra 



