SUB-PROVINCES AND VICE-COUNTIES 47 
able experience of the names given to specimens in Herbaria 
emphasises the fact that this group of plants has been much 
neglected in this country ; and without wishing to suggest 
any special accuracy in my own examination of specimens, 
it is an advantage to have a uniform authority in the 
records. The first record given is the earliest of which I 
have seen a specimen from that vice-county. An examina- 
tion of the collections at the National Herbarium, at Kew, 
and of Carrington’s in Manchester, would doubtless give 
several earlier records for some of the vice-counties, though 
it would not probably add much to the knowledge which 
we now have of the distribution of the species. 
The following are the sources from which the records 
have been derived :— 
The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
which I have had the opportunity of examining at 
leisure through the kind courtesy of Prof. I. B. 
Balfour. This Herbarium contains, besides several 
original specimens of Taylor’s of much value, the 
Greville Herbarium, and specimens from the follow- 
ing Scottish botanists: J. Cruickshank, T. Drummond, 
W. Gardiner, W. Gourlie, P. Gray, W. Jackson, 
Rey. J. Kerr, G. J. Lyon, Dr W. Nichol, J. Sadler, 
R. M. Stark. 
Prof. Dickie’s Herbarium at Aberdeen, which Prof. Trail 
kindly sent me for examination. 
A duplicate collection of Alex. Croall’s hepaties. 
The Herbaria of Charles Howie, John Sim (Strachan), 
John Whitehead, and the Rev. Dr Fergusson (Fern). 
I have not been able to trace the specimens, if extant, of 
some of the other botanists of a former generation who 
have published records of Scottish hepatics, or access to 
them has not been available. During recent years, through 
the kindness of correspondents, it is probable that few 
specimens of interest have been gathered in Scotland which 
have not passed through my hands. I am also indebted to 
them for the loan of various specimens collected by the 
earlier botanists. 
