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a systematic exploration of the district in our neighbourhood. This 
year, though my migration to Sanquhar severed the partnership so 
mutually beneficial, Mr Fingland has continued and extended his 
exploration of the district, so as to include the parts surrounding 
Dumfries ; while I have in my leisure hours prospected the 
Sanquhar and Kirkconnel parishes ; and the combined work has 
resulted in the discovery of about 200 new localities for these 
plants already recognised denizens of the county, and 46 new 
species or varieties. The main field of investigation may roughly 
be said to include the whole valley of the Nith from Dalswinton 
to Kirkconnel. Time will not allow my treating this subject in 
the complete manner it ought to be done, so I will confine myself 
to the positive aspect of the question ; and, taking the local Flora 
as my guide, I will first of all enumerate some of the new 
localities for the rarer species, with short references to those 
plants cominon elsewhere perhaps, but rare in Nithsdale ; and in 
the second place, consider those new to Dumfriesshire. 
Naturally the Ranunculi is first of all to be considered. 
Ranunculus Flammula, sub-species reptans, recorded as growing 
at Lochmaben, has been mistaken for var. psewdo-reptans, a very 
much more common plant ; though the only other locality where 
I have found perfect specimens is near Garrich, Thornhill. 2. 
hirsutus was found at Ruthwell by Mr Fingland. I show here 
a specimen of the yellow lily from the Black Loch, Sanquhar, 
and I think there is no doubt it is Wwphar intermedia, not N. 
pumila Sm. The Celandine, Chelidonium majus, as an escape, is 
well established in a few places at Thornhill and Carronbridge. 
For Corydalis claviculata, one new locality, Cleuchhouse Linn, 
Keir, has been added ; and Ruthwell locality has been confirmed 
by J. Fingland. Arabis thaliana, Barbarea vulgaris, and Car- 
damine amara may be considered fairly common, the latter 
particularly so. On the rocks in the Dalveen Pass we found 
Arabis hirsuta in a good few places. In Loch Mailing, Auld- 
girth, and Lochmaben the marsh rocket, Vastwrtiwm palustre, is 
not unfrequent. The common scurvy grass, Cochlearia officinalis, 
rare as an inland plant, grows in fair abundance in Camplecleugh; 
Water of Ai, and Euchan. Of the Caryophyllew, three only 
require to be noticed—Lychnis vespertina, which is not uncommon 
in the Thornhill district, and the variety, puberula of Silene 
inflata, found in a wood near Thornhill and near Cample. In a 
field near Sanquhar, I this season gathered the only specimens of 
