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JMillislc and abont Eggerness Point. There is nothing new to be 

 remarked abont the cryptogamic flora of Wigtownshire. 



The Eev. James Gorrie, F.C. Manse, Sorbie, who is well 

 acquainted with the botany of his own and neighbouring parishes, 

 sends me a list of a few plants, among which are other two new 

 records for the county — 1, Adoxa moschatellina, near Sorbie vil- 

 lage ; and 2, Viburnum opulus, at Waulkmill. 



Also, in September last Mr Charles Bailey, of Manchester, 

 botanised in Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, chiefly among 

 the Eosfe and the Rubi, but the result of his work has not yet been 

 published. 



Mr John T. Johnstone, secretary to the Moffat Field Club, 

 has sent me a list of Moffat plants gathered by himself, as new 

 records for Dumfriesshire. These are : Sagina procumbens, var. 

 spinosa — near the Beef Tub ; Hieracium auratum — Moffat Water ; 

 H. Sparsifolium — Craigmichen Scaurs ; Ajuga pyramidalis — Black's 

 Hope ; Saxifraga nivalis — Black's Hope. The Rev. E. F. Linton, 

 of Bournemouth, visited the Grey Mare's Tail during the past 

 summei", principally in search of Hieracia, but he has not yet 

 published a list of his gatherings in that locality. 



The following plants have been recently confirmed from the 

 Moffat district, chiefly by Mr Johnstone himself: Thalictrum 

 minus, Silene maritima, Cerastium alpinum, Saxifraga oppositifolia, 

 Sedum rhodiola, Calamintha clinopoclium, Saussurea aljana, Hier- 

 acium saxifragum, Hieracium pallidum, Hieracium prenanthoides, 

 Crepis succisjefolia, Oxyria reniformis, Salix herbacea, Habenaria 

 viridis, Veronica montana, Festuca ovina, var. rubra, AVoodsia 

 ilvensis (from Corrieferran), Cystopteris fragilis, Aspidium lonchitis, 

 Nephrodium dilatatum, with its vars. dumetorum, collina, tanaceti- 

 folia, robusta, grandidens, micromera, and valida. These last were 

 gathered by Mr James Anderson, Moffat. 



The following plants recorded from the Moffat district about 

 30 years ago, chiefly by the late Mr John Sadler and the Rev. W. 

 Bennet, have not been recently confirmed, and await re-confirma- 

 tion : Lychnis viscaria, Alchmilla alj^ina, Saxifraga aizoides, 

 Circsea alpina, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Pyrola secunda (this has 

 been found at Beld Craig since Mr Sadler's time by the late Pro- 

 fessor Balfour's class), Trientalis europa?us, Tofieldia palustris, 

 Juncus triglumis, Juncus castaneus, Juncus bifidus, Carex rupestris, 

 carex rigida, carex capillaris, and Lycopodium annotinum. I am 

 afraid that the names of the majority of the above mentioned 



