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way plants, or those found in other parts of the country, present 
this peculiarity. S. Caprea, cinerea, aurita, and purpurea are 
common. The following are additions :—S. phylicifolia, var. 
Davalliana and tenwior ; S. nigricans ; S. triandra and Salix 
cinerea, var. aquatica. Two new carices—C. pendula and C. 
aquatilis, var. Watsoni—fall to be added. 
I gathered four different brambles, and after vainly endeavour- 
ing to decipher them I sent them to Professor Babington, who 
found some difficulty in naming them, as the specimens sent were 
not very carefully prepared. The names accorded them he did 
did not wish to be considered perfectly correct ; nevertheless I 
think it better to give them. They are—Rubus Koehleri, plicatus 
ramosus, and carpinifolius. 
So far, although close attention has been paid to the Hieracia 
(Hawkweeds), I have been unable to discover any other than the 
two commonest—ZJH. vulgatwm, var. nemorosum, and H. mwrorwm 
—and I am somewhat surprised that this part of the shire can 
show no other varieties in an order where varieties are so 
numerous. Nitella Opaca and N. translucens are the only repre- 
sentatives of the Characez found in the district. 
It now remains to briefly notice the few remaining plants not 
hitherto, or only doubtfully, recorded as natives of Dumfriesshire. 
First on the list comes Thalictrum majus, var. flecuoswm, found 
in a few places on the Nith above Drumlanrig. Dianthus 
Armeria, hitherto unknown in the south west of Scotland, I 
discovered near Auldgirth, in a locality that almost excludes any 
chance of it being an escape.  Potentilla procwmbens is not 
uncommonly met with at and south of Auldgirth; while P. 
reptans has not been met with. In Cleuchhouse Linn, Keir, and 
on the Nith near Sanquhar, a few specimens of Gewm intermediwm 
have been found. Hypericum hirsutum, previously only reported 
from Kirkcudbright, appears in many places on the Nith. 
Ornithopus perpusillus and Malva moschata also claim to be con- 
sidered natives. The varieties, palustre of Taraxacum officinale, 
Leontodon hirtus, and Leontodon autumnalis (var. pratensis), fall 
to be added to the list of composite. Galiwm Mollugo I gathered 
near Sanquhar; and on the Nith near Thornhill specimens of 
Dipsacus sylvestris and Polygonum Bistorta were found. Poly- 
gonum amphibium and Peplis portula may also be noted as 
probable additions. The only new potamogeton is P. pusiillus, 
var. tenwissimus, which Mr Fingland found growing adundantly 
