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making <is complete a list of the plants of "West Galloway as 

 possible, I need no apology for again laying before you some addi- 

 tional information on the Flora of our neighbouring county. 

 Though much yet requires to be done towards the compilation of a 

 full list of Wigtownshire plants, yet I am happy to say that 

 material for this purpose is yearly accumulating ; and if the infor- 

 mation at present available for this purpose were utilised and 

 catalogued, it would present a very respectable Flora of Wigtown- 

 shire. 



During last July and August (1889) I spent a few weeks at 

 the Isle of Whithorn and Garliestown — places in Wigtownshire I 

 had not formerly visited. I botanised almost the whole seaboard 

 from Burrowhead to Orchardton Bay, besides extending my walks 

 several miles inland. The Isle of Whithorn affords to visitors 

 quietness and bracing sea air ; while Garliestown, from its situa- 

 tion at the head of its bay, and from the wooded nature of its 

 vicinity, does not possess such bracing air, though it has numerous 

 compensating advantages. Many of the fields in the south of the 

 Machars have "scraggy knowes" where the common wild plants 

 luxuriate undisturbed. In the hollows between these ridges are 

 many small lochs containing aquatic plants, almost each loch having 

 its own distinctive vegetation. The Flora of the south of the 

 Machars is entirely lowland. 



The following plants are new records for Wigtownshire : 



1. Thlaspi Arveiise — In abundance in some fields between the Isle 

 of Whithorn and the Gamekeeper's Cottage. 



2. Allium Vineale — In plenty all along the heughs between Cruggle- 

 ton Castle and Port Allan. 



3. Ranunculus Sceleratus and 4, Valerianella Olitoria — Both rare, 

 at Port Yerrick. 



5. Medicago Lupulina — In abundance on the roadsides, in fields, 

 and in waste places all along the shore from Orchardton Bay southwards. 



6. Astragalus Hypoglottis — About Burrowhead, and in greater 

 plenty and in fruit on the grassy heughs east of the Isle. 



7. Convolvulus Arvensis — On the roadsides south of Whithorn and 

 at Garliestown. 



8. ^thusa Cynapium — Among corn on Drummorral Farm ; rare. 



9. Euphorbia Exigua— On the Isle Farm ; rare. 



10. Sanguisorba Officinalis — North of Eggerness Point; not common. 



11. Calamintha Clinopodium — In several large patches north side of 

 Garliestown Bay. 



12. Thalictrum Flavum ; 13. Arenaria Serpyllifolia, var. heptoclados; 

 14. Atriplex Littoralis, var. marina — all in the same locality — Garlies- 



