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April were they again seen. The primroses first appeared on 
April 13; and four days later the first blossoming of the wood 
anemone, the butterbur, the barren strawberry, and the golden 
saxifrage were recorded. 
The first record of a plant new to the county was made by Mr 
J. Black. When we were tramping Sanquhar Moor one May 
evening he plucked what seemed to be a very stout form of the 
common cotton grass, Hriophorum angustifoliwum. This on 
examination we considered to be the variety elatius Koch, and on 
referring to Mr Arthur Bennett it was confirmed. I subsequently 
found it in a few other places, but nowhere so abundant or typical 
as on Glenmaddie Craig, at an altitude of 1350 feet. Here also 
I may state I found Draba verna and Cochlearia officinalis, the 
former being at a higher altitude here than has, as far as I am 
aware, yet been recorded. The next in order of time was Carex 
Hornschuchiana, Hoppe, a var. of fulva, which is fairly abundant 
on the moist clayey soils of the higher hills. When this Society 
visited Lochmaben, two varieties of the creeping willow were 
gathered. The one was the common var. S. argentea ; the other 
var., S. ascendens, is new to the district. A fescue I have 
previously recorded as Festuca sciwroides, Roth, I have now deter- 
mined to be Festuca Myurus, Lin. It is not uncommon. The 
common corn mint, Mentha arvensis, so well known about Dum- 
fries, has not been observed in Upper Nithsdale, but is sparingly 
represented by Mentha arvensis, var. nummularia. This season 
I have made special investigation of our Hieracia, or Hawk weeds, 
and I have no doubt, on fuller investigation, Dumfriesshire will 
compare favourably with most other counties. In our local list 
we have only seven species recorded, viz.:—Hieracium Pilosella, 
H. pallidum, H. murorum, H. Iricum, H. sylvaticum, H. wmbel- 
latum, and H. boreale. Of these H. pallidum has not been found 
in recent years. Of the remaining six, Pi/osella and boreale are 
no doubt common. H. murorum and H. sylvaticum, as far as I 
have observed, are errors. H. Iricum and wumbellatum are no 
doubt correct, though the latter must surely be found in other 
places than Tynron and Sanquhar. In Sanquhar district, of 
which I can only speak, the following are found :—H. Pilosella 
is common ; H. vulyatum and H. tridentatum, likewise common, 
have in the local list been named mwrorum and sylvaticum. H. 
vulgatum, var. maculatum, is not uncommon in the woods near 
Sanquhar ; and H. wmbellatwm grows on the Nith near Knocken- 
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