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II. Botanical Notes from Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and 
Dumfriesshire, December, 1890. 
By James M‘Anprew, New-Galloway. 
During last July (1890) I again visited Wigtownshire for the 
purpose of studying its flora. I spent a week with the Rey. 
James Gorrie, F.C. Manse, Sorbie; and as the result of our work 
in and around that parish, we added the following plants as new 
records for Wigtownshire. In Capenoch Moss, north-west of 
Whauphill Station, we gathered 1, Drosera intermedia ; 2, Lyco- 
podium selaginoides ; 3, Scirpus fluitans; 4, Carew G@deri, Ehrh ; 
and 5, a Utricularia, which Mr Arthur Bennett thinks may be 
Bremit. But for a true determination the plant must be gathered 
in flower. In the neighbourhood of Sorbie village we found 6, 
Erophila vulgaris ( Draba verna) ; 7, Habenaria bifolia ; and 8, 
Ranunculus bulbosus. At Dowalton Loch we gathered 9, Lyco- 
podiwm selago ; 10, Utricularia vulgaris ; 11, Nitella opaca ; 12, 
Polypodiwm dryopteris ; and we saw growing at Stonehouse the 
following ferns, which had been taken from the same loch :—13, 
Cystopteris fragils ; 14, Polypodium phegopteris ; 15, Polystichum 
lobatum,; and 16, Polystichum aculeatum. At Ravenstone, or 
White Loch, we got 17, Radiola millegrana. In addition to the 
above, Mr Gorrie has found 18, Saxifraga granulata in the 
grounds of Galloway House, and 19, Hyoscyanus niger, in Rigg 
Bay, south of Garliestown. 
The most interesting botanical ground Mr Gorrie and I visited 
was Dowalton Loch, which, about twenty-five years ago, was 
drained for agricultural purposes, thus exposing to view several 
lacustrine dwellings, and the remains of a large canoe. Owing 
to the very wet summer this year, botanizing this drained loch, 
except along its margin, was out of the question, but from what 
we observed I have no doubt it would amply repay a careful 
search. It has several interesting ferns along its margin. Here 
we gathered Ophioglossum vulgatum, Cryptogramme crispa, 
Sagina nodosa, Ranunculus sceleratus, Pilago Germanica, de. 
T next visited Drummore, a pleasant and clean village near the 
south of the Rhinns, with the intention of confirming, as far as 
possible, some of the records of the rare plants found in the 
neighbourhood of the Mull of Galloway. Here for three weeks 
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