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that time a small book entitled ‘‘Ramble among the Wild 
Flowers ”—this being a pleasantly-written narrative of a three 
days’ botanical tour from Edinburgh and back by way of Peebles, 
Manor Water, St. Mary’s Loch, Grey Mare’s Tail, Loch Skene, 
Corrieferron, Moffat, Deil’s Beef Tub, and Tweedsmuir. At the 
end of the book he gives a list of plants to be found in the neigh- 
bourhood of Moffat. This list was copied into the Moffat Guide- 
book at that time as a section on the botany of the district, and 
has been continued in it without any alteration till two years ago, 
when a new and more extensive list, compiled by myself, was 
substituted. In the original list Mr Sadler enumerates nearly 
150 flowering plants, 28 ferns, clubmosses, and horsetails, besides 
a number of mosses. This list, while itis a small one numerically, 
shows that Mr Sadler had been very familiar with the plants of 
the district, and had botanised it thoroughly, for the list contains 
the names of nearly all the rare plants found now in the district 
and a few which still elude re-discovery; but every season is 
seeing the number of these being gradually reduced. At the 
present time these unreconfirmed plants of the Moftat flora are 
represented by the following list:—Cardamine impatiens, L. ; 
Genista Anglica, L.; Vicia Orobus, D.C.; Epilobium Alpinum, L.; 
Seutellaria Galericulata, L.; Salix Lapponum, L. ; S. Myrsinates, 
L.; Juncus Trifidus, L.; Carex Rupestris, L., on Sadler’s 
authority. While Lychnis Viscaria, L.; Alchemilla Alpina, L.; 
Saxifraga Aizoides, L.; Veronica Saxatilis, L ; Tofieldia Palustris, 
Huds.; Juncus T'riglumis, L.; and Juncus Castenus, Sm., are on 
the authority of the “Statistical Account of Scotland for 1843.” 
This list for the “Statistical Account” was prepared by the Rev. 
Dr Singer, minister of Kirkpatrick-Juxta at that time. Sawxifraga 
Aizoides has been found since that time by the Rev. Wm. Bennet, 
Moffat, but a good many years ago, and I have failed to find it at 
the place where Mr Bennet told me he had gathered it. Andro- 
meda Polifolia, L., has the Rev. John Pagan, Bothwell, for its 
authority. 
I have no doubt that the majority of these plants are still in 
the district. Why they have not been rediscovered is simply the 
want of searchers for them. Since Mr Sadler’s time no systematic 
attempt has ever been made to botanise the district, and even 
the casual visits of botanists to the district have been very few, 
and their operations have never been extended to where these 
