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entirely from roadside observation, which I think are to be not 
despised. In some highly cultivated districts the roadside may 
form about the only refuge for hard pressed species. Corydalis 
claviculata is not very frequently met with, but may be seen from 
the road between Clarencefield and Brow Well on the edge of a 
wood. Galiwm cruciatum bulks largely as a roadside species about 
Clarencefield and further south. It is scarcer in the north 
of the county ; but probably the Sanquhar district is the only 
one where it is absent. Galiwm Mollugo puts in an appear: 
ance near Clarencefield, and increases in some parts of the road, 
especially between Dornock and Gretna. It formed a striking 
feature, climbing and overtopping the hedges on the wayside with 
its large panicles of numerous white flowers, fully expanded at 
that time. Some specimens grew so luxuriantly as to measure 
between five and six feet in length. Another plant met more 
frequently in passing southwards was Poteriwm Sanguisorbu. Near 
Cummertrees Orobanche major was gathered, and also Filago 
germanica, which I am not sure whether to regard as native or 
not. In passing out of the county towards Longtown a fine 
display of the handsome and showy flowers of Scabiosa arvensis 
was met with, accompanied with Daucas carota. Near Canonbie 
Impatiens Noli-me-tangere looked like a thriving escape. Close to 
the town of Langholm Vicia sylvatica and Carex sylvatica could be 
gathered plentifully from the road. My intention was to have 
made some examination of Eskdale in the interest of the botanical 
section of our Natural History Society, but stormy and wet 
weather here intervened and completely stopped any field work. 
My leisure time being limited, I had to abandon my intentions, 
and leave it perhaps to some other member of this Society to 
provide us with records from that district. 
Il. Recent Additions to the British Flora. 
By Mr Artuur Bennett, F.L.S. 
T have taken the Seventh Edition of the London Catalogue of 
British Plants as my starting point, and will briefly notice some 
of the plants which have been recorded since its publication. 
Probably at no era in British Botany have so many new plants 
been recorded. <A prediction made somewhere about 1850, in a 
critique of one of the later editions of Hooker’s and Arnott’s 
“ Flora,” proves how little such results were then thought of. 
The Reviewer says—‘“ Probably few, if any, real additions remain 
