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in the village and its vicinity, especially noteworthy being the 

 monument erected to James Eenwick, the last of the martyrs, who 

 was executed in Edinburgh early in 1688. This heroic young man 

 was a native of the village. A gean tree now marks the site of 

 the cottage where he was born. After passing a vote of thanks 

 to Mr Corrie for his services as guide, the party drove to 

 Glencairn Church, where the Rev. Patrick Playfair was waiting 

 to point out objects of interest. The remains of the old pre- 

 Eeformation church and the tombstones of the three Ingleston 

 martyrs were observed, Mr Playfair supplying as much information 

 as he had been able at present to acquire about the old church, 

 the gable ends of which alone remain. He then shewed the 

 visitors through his exquisite garden, pointing out various rare and 

 beautiful plants and flowers. After the Secretary had conveyed 

 the thanks of the Society to Mr Playfair, the party drove back to 

 Dumfries through Dunscore and Holywood \allages. 



Report of the Formation of tfie Herbarium. By G. F. 

 Scott-Elliot, M.A, 



The herbarium of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Society 

 may now l)e regarded as an actual entity. It now numl)ers fully 

 500 species, in which are included almost all the rarer plants of 

 Dumfriessliire. The majority of those not represented are either 

 very common plants, such as Daisy, and naturalised or planted 

 species and outcasts or escapes. There is no reason why the end 

 of next season should not see us in possession of a complete 

 herbarium of the three counties. 



The arrangement adopted has been to number each sheet 

 after the London Catalogue as well as after Bentham's Manual, 

 We have entered on every sheet as definite an account of the 

 locality as we could obtam. 



The entire labour of mounting these 500 and more sheets has 

 been performed by the Misses Hannay, with some assistance from 

 Miss Margaret Aitken and Miss Hamilton, and the thanks of the 

 Society are especially due to these ladies for the extremely neat 

 and beautiful way in which this part of the work has been done. 

 It is, moreover, a peculiarly monotonous and self-denying task, 

 and the time and labour spent upon it has been very great indeed. 

 The herbarium has been arranged in order, and is now ready for 



