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not unimportant, facts to Topographical Botany, I regret to 
think that Field Botany in the neighbourhood of Sanquhar has a 
limit, and though my researches have been pushed in the least 
frequented and unexplored districts, I have been unable to add 
so many new localities and species as I did last year, whem the 
district was practically unexplored. I will in this paper then 
speak of the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel parishes only. 
Viola lutea, the yellow pansy, is abundant on all the upland 
meadows, and, along with the variety ( V.) amana, forms in many 
parts quite a pleasing feature in otherwise barren districts ; but 
in no place do they appear in such variety and profusion as at 
Wanlockhead, where they bedeck the green swards with their 
variegated petals as richly as do the gowans on the lowland 
meadows, while the heaths are in like manner enriched by the 
golden bloom of the pretty whin, Genista anglica. The knob- 
berry, Rubus Chamemorus, is also found here in fair abundance, 
and in a few of the glens Saxifraga hypnoides is not uncommon, 
but few other flowering plants have been able to find a footing 
in the wet and sedgy soil of these gloomy uplands. Spire saliet- 
Jfolia, the willow-leaved spire, has become naturalised in Elliock 
woods. Arctiwm intermedium has been found in two or three 
localities in the parish, and mewm athamanticum has for the first 
time been discovered growing in abundance on Carco Hill in 
Crawick. Andromeda polifolia, wild rosemary, on Sanquhar 
moor comes as a welcome addition, and Myosotis cespitosa, not 
considered common in Dumfriesshire, is found in fair abund- 
ance on upland rills. Galeopsis versicolor is very abundant ; 
and the terrestrial variety of Polygonum amphibiwm has been 
found in one locality. Lamium album, Helianthemum vulgare, 
the rock rose, and the tuberous comfrey, Symphytum tuberosum, 
have been found in Kirkconnel parish, the latter established near 
the railway station, and on many parts of the line is probably an 
escape. New localities have been recorded for Salix pentandria, 
and the crack willow, S. fragilis, is a native of Elliock Woods. 
In September last I was delighted to find Hpipactis latifolia 
flourishing in the woods of Crawick ; and though that has only 
been recorded in the Statistical Account of Dumfriesshire as 
natives near Tinwald and Dumfries, it is probably not uncommon, 
being easily overlooked. Its presence in Crawick is in all 
probability due to the preservation of the natural woods on that 
river. Menthar piperita, found in one or two localities, is probably 
an escape. 
