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Mr Arthur Bennett on Scottish Plants. [sess. uu. 



ticus, Potamogeton rufesceTis, Carex aquatilis, C. rigida, and 

 many commoner species. 



Mr J. M'Andrew has added 6 species to Kirkcudbright ; 

 and Mr Fingland Thalidrum monfanum, Polygonum vivi- 

 parum, Oxyria 7X7iiformis to Dumfries. 



I have thus run through the series of 584 records, known 

 to me as being found in 1888. It may be asked, " Will 

 equally large numbers of records be given year by year as 

 during the last three or four years ?" I think not. We 

 have now on record" most of the very common plants for all 

 the Scotch counties ; and while I fully believe we are far 

 from having filled up all the gaps, still I do think we are 

 approaching the time when we shall be able to say with 

 some degree of certainty what are present and what are 

 absent in most counties of the common and generally dis- 

 tributed species. 



To work of this sort there is of necessity no finality ; still 

 we shall be justified in making some inquiries regarding 

 " the why and the wherefore " of our flora, such as Professor 

 Axel Blytt has done in his able paper " On the Immigration 

 of the Norwegian Flora," which, being in English, is acces- 

 sible to all British botanists. 



I conclude by giving the numbers of the new records in 

 the different counties, as I did in my former paper : — 



