l08 Transactions. 



22. Rosa canina, var. Kosinciana, Bessei'. 



23. „ ,, ,, decipiens, Dumort. 



24. ,, „ ,, glauca, Vill. 



25. „ ,, ,, subcristata, Baker. 



26. ,, ,, „ coriijolia, Fries. 



27. „ „ ,, Watsoni, Baker. 



28. „ ,, ,, Borreri, AVoods. 



INTERMEDIATES. , 



29. Rosa canina, form, near vinacea, Baker. 



30. „ ,, „ nearing subcristata. 



31. J, ,, ,. extreme subcristata, hispid pedicels. 



32. ,, ■ ,, ,, near coriifolia. 



33. ,, ,, ,, verticillacantha, with upright sepals. 



34. ,, ,, „ near Reuteri. 



35. ,, ,, „ dumalis leaf and sphcerica fruit. 



III. Annan in the Eighteenth Century. 

 By Mr Frank Millar. 

 When the eighteenth century opened, Annan was not by any 

 means in a flourishing state. It was no longer a place of military 

 importance with a strong garrison, its fairs had ceased to attract 

 visitors, and the trade of the district had been diverted into new 

 channels, Lockerbie, Ecclefechan, Dalton,. and Applegarth profit- 

 in"- at the expense of their once prosperous neighbour. The 

 appearance of the town showed its insignificance. To the casual 

 visitor the historic burgh seemed little better than an ordinary 

 village of three or four hundred inhabitants. On each side of 

 " the hi" h town street" was an irregular row of stone-built dwell- 

 ing houses, with dull little windows and thatched roofs. Every 

 vestige of the ancient castle had disappeared, with the exception 

 of the inscribed stone referred to in Pennant's "Tour in Scotland 

 in 1769." The school house, in which the children of the parish 

 were instructed in English and Latin, was a wretched little 

 building, with crumbling walls, situated in the gloomy church- 

 yard. The tolbooth, where justice was dispensed by the provost 

 and bailies, was new and unimposing, and a church less pleasing, 

 from an esthetic standpoint, than Annan kirk could not have 

 been discovered in broad Scotland. There was danger in riding 

 throu<'h the town, for the deep hollows and pits in the unpaved 



