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making a careful calculation. In the instances of early flowering I 
have given I do not think the atmospheric heat (which did not 
begin till June) sufficiently accounts for the phenomena, but that 
the sunshine of the earlier dry months had a share in it. 
In giving a summary of results for 1887, I am indebted to Dr 
Davidson, Sanquhar, for some notes from his district. The finds 
of most interest which he reports are Scadiosa arvensis, at Drum- 
buie ; Avadis hirsuta, Kello Linns; Veronica hederefolia, Phleum 
arenaria, and Lolium temulentum variety arvense, from the river 
side at Sanquhar ; Cevastium semidecandrum, from Crawick; and 
Potentilla argentea, near Holywood. Two of these at least, if not 
three, are additions to our Flora. Mr John Corrie, Moniaive, has 
made two good finds, both in his own parish of Glencairn. One is 
a valuable addition to our family of native Orchids in Malaxis 
paludosa, although Dr Grierson informs me since that he collected 
the same plant a number of years ago in the parish of Keir, but 
does not know whether it now exists there or not. The other 
plant is Carex irrigua, a locality for which has hitherto been a 
desideratum. In the Thornhill district I have to add Cad/itriche 
autumnalis and Nitella flexilis from the parish of Closeburn. Two 
other additions to the county are Carex G@deri, for certain at last, 
growing in considerable quantity in a dried-up pond near Auld- 
girth, and Utricularia intermedia, found at Loch Urr. Two more 
plants, Stachys betonica and Hippuris vulgaris, are new to the dis- 
trict. The former I gathered near Auldgirth, this new locality, 
therefore, becoming a link between the only other two localities 
for it at Sanquhar and Caerlaverock in the Nith valley; the 
latter plant was found in Closeburn, but the specimens of it 
there were rather dwarfed. Mr Corrie and I met with a very 
luxuriant growth of the same plant in Fingland Lane, Kirkeud- 
brightshire, alongst with otamogeton rufescens, Spargantum 
minimum, and Carex paniculata. In critical genera Rosa tomen- 
tosa, var. scabriuscula is an addition and a variety of Rosa 
canina between “ arvatica” and “ Watsonit.” There has also been 
found a variety of Rosa mollis, “ psuedo-rubiginosa,” on the Nith, 
which will, I think, be new to Scotland, as Mr Bennett of 
Croydon, who kindly named it for me, and also sent the specimen 
to Mr Baker of Kew, to have it confirmed, informs me that it has 
only hitherto been found in York and Surrey. In brambles, 
Rubus macrophyllus and Rubus umbrosus have been found near 
Annan, and Kveh/eri at Auldgirth. In Mints, the sudglabra 
