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significant that in the late Eev. Dr. Landsborough's 

 "Excursions in Arrau," issued first in 1847, and in 

 Bryce's "Arran," which appeared some years later, in the 

 list of the plants of the island carefully compiled by the 

 now ex-Cabinet Minister, Mr. James Bryce, Glaucium finds 

 no place. On the Ayrshire coast opposite, though we find 

 there conditions very favourable for Glaucium at points 

 throughout its entire length, we require to-day to go to the 

 extreme south of the county, to the neighbourhood of 

 Ballantrae, before Glaucium can be seen. 



On the shores of the Forth estuary matters are not much, 

 if at all, better. We examined, last summer, a considerable 

 stretch of suitable coast at Largo Bay, Fife, with the result 

 that, on the littoral margin of the desolate Kilconquhar 

 links, we could find but a single plant of Glaucium, from 

 which one or two branches were taken by us, the plant 

 itself, a large one, being left to develop further pods. 

 Coming westward, and crossing the firth into Linlithgow- 

 shire, Mr. Sonntag states, in his " Flora of Edinburgh and 

 Surrounding District" (1894), that he found Glauci^im 

 growing at Blackness, but we know not whether it is still 

 to be found there. Midlothian has long been deserted by 

 the Horned Poppy. In Haddington it occurs, though now 

 exceedingly sparingly. 



The latest careful county census of Glaucium in Scotland 

 is by Professor Trail in his " Topographical Botany of Scot- 

 land," now appearing in the " Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History." The counties which Professor Trail gives are 

 the following, taking the west coast first, viz. — (72) Dum- 

 fries ; (73) Kirkcudbright; (74) Wigtown; (75) Ayr; 

 (76) Kenfrew (in which last it must now be considered 

 extinct); (98) Argyll ; and (100) Clyde Isles (i.e. Bute- 

 shire). We reject his (99) Dumbartonshire record, as the 

 plant is no longer known as occurring in that county. On 

 the east coast the counties are — (81) Berwick; (82) Had- 

 dington; not (8a) Midlothian ; (84) Linlithgow; and (85) 

 Fife. There is a doubted record from the inland county 

 (82) Ptoxburgh, and one from (95) Elgin, and we are 

 informed also by the late Professor Dickie that it at one 

 time grew on the (91) Kincardine coast, but had long been 

 extinct there. Curiously, H. Cottrell Watson mentions a 



