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plants were likely to.be found. That this is so can easily be 
understood when I mention that since the formation of a Natural- 
ists’ Field Club (now extinct) in Moffat in May, 1886, which gave 
an impetus to the pursuit of botany here, the stations for 55 
plants given in the Society list on the authority of Mr Sadler and 
the “Statistical Account of Scotland” have either been recon- 
firmed or new ones given for them. While stations have been 
found here for about 40 plants (omitting those marked common 
and general) which have no station given in the Society’s list 
for this district, and at least 10 new plants have been added as 
new records for the county. 
These results show that there is no necessity for excluding the 
majority of the unreconfirmed plants from the list, as some of 
your members have ere now suggested. Those members ought at 
least to make a personal effort. to verify their presence or other- 
wise first; and having done this and failed, it will be time enough 
then to consider the expediency of expunging them from the list. 
A few notes on some of the most interesting of the reconfirmed 
plants may not be amiss, and for easy reference I will follow the 
sequence of the Society’s list. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., stiil retains 
its ancient habitat at Garple, while a new station has been found 
for it in a small rivulet on the Granton Hill, Cerastium 
Alpinum, L., Blackshope and rocks at Loch Skene. Vicia 
sylvatica, L., is still to be found at the Grey Mare’s Tail, but it is 
now rather scarce. Saxifraga oppositifolia, L., has one station 
only, but it is fairly abundant at it. Lpilobium angustifolium is 
also found at Blackshope and Corehead ; while Z. alsinefolium 
Villars is also common in Blackshope, Corrieferron, and Grey 
Mare’s Tail. Galiwm pusillum, which appears in the Society list 
on Mr Sadler’s authority, is common at the Grey Mare’s Tail, 
Corrieferron, &e. This plant will require to ‘have its name 
changed to Galiwm sylvestre, Poll. Messrs E. F. and W. R. 
Linton, in a paper which appeared in the Journal of Botany last 
June, gave Galiwm sylvestre, Poll., Grey Mare’s Tail, as a. new 
record for the County of Dumfries. I drew Mr E. F. Linton’s 
attention to the Galiwm pusillwm in the Society’s list, and asked 
him if it was not the same plant as sylvestre. His reply was that 
G. sylvestre, Poll., was formerly known to Don and Smith as G@. 
pusillum by an error, but it was not the G. pusillum, Linn., 
which was not a British plant ; and he had no doubt Sadler must 
