TRANSACTIONS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXXVIL 



Survey of the Vegetation of the Parish of Shotts, 

 Lanarkshire. By George Brown, M.A. (Plate IV.) 



Introduction. 



The following survey of the vegetation of the parish 

 of Shotts was begun in July 1908, and has been continued 

 at vacation times during the past four years. It is an 

 attempt, not to give exhaustive lists of the plants of the 

 area, but to study the various plant associations and their 

 relation to the topographical, geological, and climatic char- 

 acteristics of the district. 



For much help in connection with the finding and naming 

 of certain of the plants I am greatly indebted to my old 

 schoolmaster and friend, Mr. Dunn, Schoolhouse, Harthill. 

 The various agricultural statistics were kindly supplied by 

 the Board of Agriculture. 



Topography. 



Shotts Parish is in the north-east of the Middle Ward of 

 Lanarkshire. It is bounded on the N.W. and N. by the 

 parish of New Monkland, being separated therefrom by the 

 North Calder Water ; on the N.E. and E. by the parishes 

 of Torphichen, Bathgate, and Whitburn, in Linlithgow- 

 shire, separated from these by Barbauchlaw Burn and 

 How Burn ; on the S.E. and S. by the parish of Cambus- 



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