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In the beginning of last August I had a short tricycle run 
through the south of the county, which afforded me an opportunity 
of extending my knowledge of our flora, and also of obtaining 
some specimens for my herbarium. I will mention only the less 
common plants which came under notice. I am well aware the 
majority, if not all of them, will be known to Dumfries botanists, 
although one or two of them do not seem to have been hitherto 
recorded. On the shore below Glencaple very little search 
sufficed to reveal the delicate flowers of Anagallis tenella, half 
hidden in the wet and spongy parts of the turf, whilst close 
beside were the pearl-like blossoms of Sagina nodosu. CHnanthe 
Lachenalii was there the characteristic umbellifer. Blysmus 
rufus struggled for possession of the drier parts of the 
ground with considerable success. Nowhere on the shore did 
I notice it so abundant as there. On reaching the ruins of 
Carlaverock Castle, I think the most striking feature, botanically 
speaking, is to be seen in the moat, where the tall and handsome 
grass, Glyceria aquatica, forms the greater portion of vegetation 
in the outer edge of the water. The adjoining marsh was quite 
gay with the bright colours of Genistw tinctoria and Betonica offici- 
nalis. Carum verticillatum, liberally intermingled, gave an air of 
refinement to a rather beautiful group of plants. Carex paludosa 
is tolerably plentiful here and (Hnanthe fistulosa likewise. Further 
round the shore the littoral species increase, and seem fairly well 
represented. Carex extensu is common on the shore about Ruthwell, 
and here also I found Carex vulpina growing in isolated tufts by the 
edges of ditches or drains, which intersect the merse. Bentham 
remarks of this Carex that where it occurs in Scotland, 
it is chiefly a coast plant. I have an immature Carex taken from 
Lochar Moss at Racks Station a year previous, which, after com- 
paring with this, I take to be the same species. Salicornia 
herbacea is found in the tidal portions of the shore here. A little 
more inland I gathered Vulerianellu olitoria, Drosera intermedia, 
and Lycopus ewropeus. In a pond close at hand were Potamogeton 
crispus and one of the Batruchian Ranunculi, R. floribundus. 
Another of these, &. peltutus, I also found in a ditch with Spar- 
genium simplex and Veronica Anagallis. The latter plant I mention 
only because, although a widely distributed one, I have never 
seen in Upper Nithsdale, having gathered it, however, in 
Moffatdale. Anchusa arvensis, as a weed in a corn field, was 
gathered near the shore at Ladyhall. Any further notes were 
