84: TEANSACnONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sbss. lvui. 



Ax Old List of " Stations of Earek Plants ascer- 

 tained TO GEOW round InVERKEITHING AND NORTH OF THE 



Forth. By A, Eobertson." Communicated by Prof. 

 Bayley Balfour. 



Amongst some old papers of the late Professor J. H. 

 Balfour, recently come into my hands, I find one with 

 the title quoted above, which appears to me to be worthy 

 of being laid before the Society. Although the informa- 

 tion it contains must have been utilised in the preparation 

 of Balfour and Sadler's Flora of Edinburgh, there are 

 stations noted in the list which do not appear in that 

 work, and in view of the many surface changes in the 

 area included in the list, brought about by new lines of 

 railway communication through it, and the prospect this 

 opens out of the introduction of alien plants, it may be, 

 I think, useful to workers in the future to have before 

 them such a list, showing what botanists of fifty years 

 ago knew of the rarer and introduced plants of the 

 district. Appended to the list is the following note : — 



" All the plants marked ' Pitrea\ae ' are decidedly 

 introduced (old garden). 



'■' The Culross plants — Doronicuni Fai'dcdiancJies, Galan- 

 fkus, Xarcissus, and Hypericurii Aiidrosoemum are at best 

 suspicious ; also Euphorhia Laihyris and Arum. 



"The St. Da^dd's plants, — (excepting Tlvalidruhi jlavum 

 and Allium are/iarium) — some decidedly introduced, others 

 suspicious. 



" The Inverkeithing plants — Sapoiw.ria officinalis, Nastur- 

 tian sylrcstrc and Sinajris muralis (also at Charlestown), 

 decidedly introduced. 



" The Cleish plants — {Aralis Turrita), Actcca, Mecoiwpsu, 

 ValeriaiwL pyrcna.ica, Hicroxium amplexicaule, Convallaria, 

 Arum, either decidedly introduced or suspicious (old 

 garden), also Doronicum plo.niagineum, Smyrnium Olv^satrum; 

 and Feiccedanum Ostrutldum probably introduced at both 

 stations. 



'' Fetasites alhus and Saxifraga nmhrosa certainly intro- 

 duced. Frun'us doyne-stica and iiisititia and Frag aria elatior 

 probably introduced ; and also Acer ca.mpestre, Fetroselinum, 

 and Ainura certainly introduced ; and also Carum Carui. 



