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places north of Port-William G/aucium luteum, Malva moschata, 
and a prostrate form of Vicia sylvatica are most conspicuous, and 
south of Port-William Cramée maritima isin plenty. I saw one 
field almost covered with wild carrot and another with bugloss. 
Of ferns, the Parsley Fern, Green Spleenwort, and Cystopteris 
Jragilis seem to be absent. The Royal Fern, now rare, was 
formerly very plentiful about Mochrum Loch, &c., but it has 
shared the fate of many other rare native plants—almost complete 
extirpation. A person told me that in her youth it was cut and 
dried to cover potatoes, &c., as brackens are commonly used, but 
that it had been carried off in cartloads by fern vendors. Mr 
Druce did not notice Ranunculus bulbosus in the county. Hyferi- 
cum dubium is the most common St. John’s wort, and Zpzlobium 
obscurum the most common willow herb. The typical plants of 
the county are Lepidium Smithit, Génanthe Crocata (“ hech-how ”) 
Carum verticillatum, and Jasione montana. The Rock Rose is 
very rare and so is Golden Rod, so common in our sub-alpine 
glens. Swine’s Cress is very common, though very rare in the 
Stewartry. Some of the shore plants become scarcer as we 
proceed up the Solway Firth, while others seem to increase in 
abundance. For instance, Sc//a verna, the vernal squill, so 
abundant in spring on the heughs of the west coast, does mot 
occur to my knowledge east of the River Dee. Geranium 
sanguineum, on the other hand, seems to increase in frequency as 
we go eastwards, until we find it in plenty at Almorness. 
Lrodium cicutarium is very rare in the Stewartry but very 
plentiful in such sandy spots as Port-Logan and Monreith Bay. 
Scutellaria minor has been recorded from only one or two stations 
in Kirkeudbrightshire, whereas it is frequent in damp places 
between Glenluce and Port-William. I could easily point out 
other differences in the frequency, rarity, or absence of plants 
from the two Galloways, but the above will suffice. 
I have compared the lists from Wigtownshire and Kirkeud- 
brightshire, and I find that while nearly seventy plants recorded 
from the Stewartry have not yet been found in the “ Shire,” only 
about twelve plants in Wigtownshire have not yet been noticed 
in Kirkeudbrightshire. These are Sagina maritima, Spergularia 
neglecta, Erodium maritimum, Carduus tenuifiorus, Bartsia viscosa, 
Thymus chamedrys, Lamium intermedium, Euphorbia paratias, 
Equisetum maximum, Isolepis savii, and Caucalis nodosa. The 
most of these should be in the Stewartry. Those in Kirkeud- 
