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plants were likely to be found. That this is so can easily be 

 understood when I mention that since the formation of a Natural- 

 ists' Field Club (now extinct) in Moffat in May, 1886, which gave 

 an impetus to the pursuit of botany here, the stations for 55 

 plants given in the Society list on the authority of Mr Sadler and 

 the " Statistical Account of Scotland " have either been recon- 

 firmed or new ones given for them. While stations have been 

 found here for about 40 plants (omitting those marked common 

 and general) which have no station given in the Society's list 

 for tliis district, and at least 10 new plants have been added as 

 new records for the county. 



These results show that there is no necessity for excluding the 

 majority of the unrecontirmed plants from the list, as some of 

 your members have ere now suggested. Those membeis ought at 

 least to make a personal effort to verify their presence or other- 

 wise first; and having done this and filled, it will be time cnougli 

 then to consider tlie expediency of expunging tiiein from the list. 

 A few notes on some of the most interesting of the reconfirmed 

 plants may not be amiss, and for easy reference I will follow the 

 sequence of the Society's list. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., still retains 

 its ancient habitat at Garple, while a new station has been found 

 for it in a small rivulet on the Granton Hill. Cerastium 

 Alpinum, L., Blackshope and rocks at Loch Skene. Vicia 

 sylvatica, L., is still to be found at the Grey Mare's Tail, but it is 

 now rather scarce. Saxifraga oppositifolia, L., has one station 

 only, but it is fairly abundant at it. Epilobium angustifoliuvi is 

 also found at Blackshope and Corehead ; while E. alsinefolitim 

 Villars is also common in Blackshojie, Corrieferron, and Grey 

 Mare's Tail. Galium pusilluin, which appears in the Society list 

 on Mr Sadler's authority, is common at the Grey Mare's Tail, 

 Corrieferron, &c. This plant will require to have its name 

 changed to Galium sylvestre, Poll. Messrs E. F. and W. R. 

 Linton, in a paper which appeared in the Journal of Botany last 

 June, gave Galium sylvestre. Poll., Grey Mare's Tail, as a new 

 record for the County of Dumfries. I drew Mr E. F. Linton's 

 attention to the Galium jntsilluvi in the Society's list, and asked 

 him if it was not the same plant as sylvestre. His reply was that 

 G. sylvestre, Poll, was formerly known to Don and Smith as G. 

 pusilluvi by an error, but it was not the G. pusillnm, Linn, 

 which was not a British plant ; and he had no doubt Sadler must 



