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22. Rosa canina, var. Kosinciana, Besser. 
23° Fe 5, decipiens, Dumort. 
24. ,, % » glauca, Vill. 
ZOO 135 5 5, subcristata, Baker. 
26n0s, 43 » corrufolia, Fries. 
yf es 4 »  Watsoni, Baker. 
Pia we! 3 »  Borreri, Woods. 
INTERMEDIATES. Z 
29. Rosa canina, form, near vinacea, Baker. 
0 eee a » nearing subcristata. 
Oe ps5 ‘5 » extreme subcristata, hispid pedicels. 
By eae. ry » near corirfolia. 
SDs 655 3 »,  verticillacantha, with upright sepals. 
BY, Dee » » near Reuterr. 
DOs ausd , »  dumalis leaf and spherica fruit. 
III. Annan in the Highteenth Century. 
By Mr Frank Mitrar. 
When the eighteenth century opened, Annan was not by any 
means in a flourishing state. It was no longer a place of military 
importance with a strong garrison, its fairs had ceased to attract 
visitors, and the trade of the district had been diverted into new 
channels, Lockerbie, Ecclefechan, Dalton, and Applegarth profit- 
ing at the expense of their once prosperous neighbour. The 
appearance of the town showed its insignificance. To the casual 
visitor the historic burgh seemed little better than an ordinary 
village of three or four hundred inhabitants. On each side of 
“ the high town street” was an irregular row of stone-built dwell- 
ing houses, with dull little windows and thatched roofs. Every 
vestige of the ancient castle had disappeared, with the exception 
of the inscribed stone referred to in Pennant’s “Tour in Scotland 
in 1769.” The school-house, in which the children of the parish 
were instructed in English and Latin, was a wretched little 
building, with crumbling walls, situated in the gloomy church- 
yard. The tolbooth, where justice was dispensed by the provost 
and bailies, was new and unimposing, and a church less pleasing, 
from an zsthetic standpoint, than Annan kirk could not have 
been discovered in broad Scotland. There was danger in riding 
through the town, for the deep hollows and pits in the unpaved 
