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The Solway Moss at one time evidently covered a much 

 larger area than it does now, and seems to extend even yet 

 a considerable distance on both sides of the river Sark, 

 which divides England from Scotland. It thus appears to 

 me that the station at Chapel Knowe is really upon the 

 Solway Moss, although on the Scottish side of the Border 

 in Dumfriesshire. 



Mr. Eobert Godfrey, in his note about the Auchincorth 

 specimen, at p. 121, "Annals of Scottish Natural History 

 for 1899," quotes a letter of Mr. Wm. Evans, who, after 

 referring to it as having been found growing on Blair- 

 Drummond Moss and on Flanders Moss, says : " I have a 

 note of its presence in the former of these localities down 

 to 1882, and Mr. E. Kidston tells me it still grows in 

 Flanders Moss, and also on a moss near Old Polmaise, a few 

 miles on this side of Stirling." 



In " Xotes on the Fauna and Flora of the AVest of 

 Scotland," p. 67, it is mentioned that A. iwlifolia is found 

 at Garnkirk, Cadder Moss, and Paisley Moss. 



I am indebted to Mr. Eutherford Hill for drawing my 

 attention to a paper, by Mr. Eobert Lindsay, on Andromeda 

 Jloribunda, Pursh., or, Pieris floribunda, Benth. et Hook, f., 

 and which appears at p. 333 vol. xix. of the " Transactions " 

 of this Society. He gives several instances of sheep being 

 poisoned, and of numbers dying through eating the plant, 

 and also quotes the "Gardeners' Chronicle" of 20th April 

 1878 as his authority for the death of a horse from eating 

 A. floribunda. The horse died in great agony in less than 

 twenty-four hours. The contents of the stomach were 

 examined, and found to consist of a small quantity of the 

 shrub, and this mostly the flower-buds. 



Dr. Cleghorn in the " Transactions " of this Society, vol. 

 ix. p. 410, draws attention to a notice in the "Gardeners' 

 Chronicle" of I7th March 1866, p. 256, where a case is 

 mentioned where eighteen sheep died out of thirty-seven 

 that showed symptoms of the poison, having eaten the plant 

 during an invasion of some private grounds. After treat- 

 ment, nineteen out of the thirty-seven recovered. A. 

 florihunda was introduced into England from Xorth America 

 in 1811. 



In the discussion that followed the reading of this paper, 



