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embankments ; and Hrysimum cheiranthoides, near the railway 
station, a casual far removed from its native habitat, the fen 
districts of England. 
Before dismissing this subject one plant deserves special 
notice. This is a carex, new, as far as I am aware, to Scot- 
land. It is common on the higher hills, and its form is 
probably familiar to most of you, who, on the authority of the 
local catalogue, have passed it over as C. Gdert. I knew the 
plant was not C. (deri, as I had gathered the latter on an 
excursion in the north, but I did not consult any authority on 
the subject till this season, when I submitted it to Mr Bennett, 
who pronounced it to be CO. flava, minor (Townsend). Carex 
(deri, with which it has possibly been confounded, I have failed 
to discover, and doubted its existence until Mr Fingland, Thorn- 
hill, showed me some specimens gathered from some locality near 
Ruthwell. These remarks then comprise all I can record as new 
to the county, but do not by any means indicate all that has 
been done in Upper Nithsdale and elsewhere. Mr Brown, 
Auchenhessnane, has found Lathea Squamaria in the woods 
there. Mr James Fingland, Thornhill, has added many new 
habitats and not a few new species to the Flora of Dumfriesshire. 
Before taking farewell of this subject I have thought the 
present an opportune time for recording the census I have taken 
of the plants in Sanquhar Parish. These of course may by more 
careful examination and analysis be increased, but up to the 
present time 440 species and varieties have been found, and their 
localities separately recorded for future reference, or for the use 
of this Society if the members so will it. Of these 440, 7 are 
casuals introduced with or as seeds, 10 are garden escapes, and 
14 are planted trees or shrubs. These numbers may seem small 
when compared with those recorded from more southerly parishes, 
with more productive soil, and more congenial climate, yet when 
we consider the comparative sterility of this district, with its 
cultivated fields but plots in a dreary waste of heath and moor- 
land, this number is remarkable, and I fondly hope, if future 
years see additions to their number, that I may be the fortunate 
contributor. 
