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the sea, through Netherlaw Glen. The chief tributary, 

 the overflow of the Fell Loch, at the foot of the Suie, 

 flows through Balmangau Glen, about half a mile north 

 of the village. The plants (I use the word as including 

 mosses and lichens) which I shall mention have almost all 

 been gathered within a radius of four miles from Dun- 

 drennan, and chiefly on the Suie, and in the glens of 

 Balmangan, Netherlaw, and Barloco. 



The Galloway fence, a stone dyke with hedge thorns 

 planted in it, and overgrowing it, has been a great 

 protection for ferns and mosses. 



For Ferns, I have used Hooker and Arnott's " British 

 Flora," 8 th edition ; for Mosses, Stark's " History of British 

 Mosses," and Hobkirk's "Synopsis"; for Lichens, Lindsay's 

 " Popular History of British Lichens," and Leighton's 

 " Lichen Flora of Great Britain," but Dr. Stirton has 

 named the most of the lichens for me, and Mr. ]\I' Andrew, 

 New Galloway, helped me with the mosses. 



Beginning with Dundrennan Abbey and the Glebe, 

 we have of — 



Ferns. — Asplenium Trichomanes, L., the common Spleen- 

 wort. It grows in great abundance, and I have measured 

 fronds of it ten inches in length. Wall Eue, A. Iluta- 

 muraria, L., is to be found on the boundary wall of 

 the ruins, and on the garden walls in a few favoured 

 spots. The other ferns are the common Polypody, 

 Polypodium vidgare, L. ; the Male fern of Aspidium Filix- 

 mas, Sw., and two varieties of the Shield fern, A. dilatatum, 

 Sw., and A. spimdosum, Willd. 



Mosses. — We find that beautiful moss, so common 

 everywhere, even in shop windows, Hypnum proliferum, L., 

 or H. tamariscinum, Hedw. ; also H, riUahidum, L. ; II. 

 prcdongum, Dill. ; H. tenellum, Dicks. ; H. trichoma noides, 

 Schreb. ; II. plumosum, Swartz ; H. cup)ressiforme, L. ; H. 

 squarrosum, L. ; H. piinim, L. ; Icskia sericea, Dill. ; 

 Tortida murcdis, L. ; T. unguiculata, Dill. ; T. rurcdis, L. ; 

 Bryum capillar e, Hedw. ; B. argenteum, L. ; Mnium cvffine, 

 Bland. ; M. undulatum, Hedw. (" pulchraj gentis pul- 

 cherrima ") ; Grimmia pidvinata, Dill. ; Fissidens adian- 



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