Dec. 1893.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, 37 



l*rofessor Bay ley Balfour remarked on the important 

 results that a systematic investigation of the flora and 

 biological conditions of our Scottish lakes would supply, and 

 reminded the Society that a Committee of the British Associ- 

 ation was appointed at the Newcastle meeting for the purpose 

 of carrying out such an investigation. So far, however, no 

 results had been obtained, but the proposal was one which the 

 members of the Society should endeavour to carry out. 



Botanical Notes fok the Moffat District, 1893. 

 By J. Thorburn Johnstone, Moffat. 



This summer (1893) I visited a number of the small 

 out-of-the-way Linns in the district, such as Harthope 

 and Greskine in Evan Water, Greigsland Burn, Dykehead 

 Linn, Duff Kinnel and its tributaries in Johnstone, and 

 various other places. No new plants were recorded, but 

 new stations were found for several of our uncommon 

 plants, showing that they have a wider distribution in the 

 district than might be inferred from the position of the 

 previous recorded stations. Among the most interesting 

 of these plants were — 



Pyrola secunda, gathered in one of the tributaries of 

 Duff Kinnel, this being 16 miles from the nearest of the 

 five stations for it previously known to me. 



Hicracium sparsifolium. Also in Duff Kinnel ; but the 

 plants are much more luxuriant in their habit than those 

 to be gathered at Beef Tub and Craigmichen Scaurs. 



Cardamine impaticns. This I found growing in the 

 stackyard at Middlegill, and it is also growing very 

 abundantly as a garden weed in Kirkpatrick-Juxta 

 Manse garden. It was on the roadside near this manse 

 I found it growing in 1891, when it was reconfirmed for the 

 district. The liev. Mr. Little (a former minister of the parish), 

 who was an ardent botanist, would most probably plant 

 it in the garden some time during his incumbency, where 

 it has thriven so well as to have now become a regular 

 weed, and the specimens I originally gathered on the road- 

 side must have spread from the garden. 



The inside of the garden wall at the Manse is also 

 covered with Cderach officinarum, Willd., which in all 



