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Plants, interesting as the sole representatives of their genus in 
Britain, or on account of some special local reason, have been now 
discovered as follows :— Subularia aquatica (F. R. Coles), in 
shallow reaches of the Dee below Threave ; Teesdalia nudicaulus, 
in the Holm Glen by M‘Andrew and at Locharbriggs by Wilson; 
Alsine verna, mentioned in the Flora as lost since 1864, was re- 
discovered in Colvend on an excursion of the Society in 1882 ; 
Orobanche rubra (M‘Andrew), in Colvend; Centunculus minimus 
(Coles), in Kelton ; Malaxis paludosa (M‘Andrew), in Colvend ; 
and the rare and beautiful grass, Calamagrostis lanceolata, was 
found undoubtedly native by M‘Andrew this year (1884) for the 
first time for Scotland; “its most northern station known for 
certain,” says Mr Bennett, “‘ being Cheviotland in N., Northum- 
berland.” 
The Characee—not included in the Flora at all—prove to be 
fairly numerous. In two seasons Mr Coles had found the follow- 
ing species :—Chara fragilis, Desv., near, if not quite, the typical 
plant, rarely, in clear pools of the Glengapp water, Tongland ; 
the variety barbala is the commonest form, being frequent in 
small streams and sheep drains on the moors in the middle of 
Kirkeudbright ; var. brachy-phylla, as yet noticed in only one 
locality, close to the sea on Muckle Ross cliffs ; var. capillacea, 
local, but very luxuriant in a mill dam in Kelton; the var. deli- 
catula is credited by Messrs Groves to Mr M‘Andrew—locality 
unknown. 
Chara polyacantha—This strange and very uncommon plant 
Mr Coles found in fair quantity in a turbid peaty loch on Culdoch 
Moor, Kirkeudbright. Nitella opaca, with one or two sub- 
species, is fairly common in ponds and ditches, while a very 
beautiful and characteristic form of WV. translucens grows in 
Meiklewood Loch, Tongland. 
Among Filices, Mr Coles records several new stations for 
Hymenophyllum Wilsont; Mr Wilson for Cystopteris fragilis ; 
Mr M‘Andrew finds Lastrea spinulosa in the Glenkens woods, 
and a very striking variety of the common bracken, having the 
points of each pinna attenuated and then forked, sometimes quin- 
quefidly ; grows in Compstone Wood (Coles, October, 1884), ° 
Kirkcudbright. 
Looking at the Flora as a whole, it was pleasant to note so 
few actual errors, but still there were some plants admitted whose 
identity, habitat, and distribution were all somewhat lost in 
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