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west but is by no means common on the east coast. In Gullan loch 

 and its vicinity Sium angustifolium, Helosciadium repens, Ulricularia 

 vulgaris, Poa aquatica, Hippuris vulgaris, Scirpus lacustris, Potamo- 

 geton densus, Carex intermedia, teretiuscula and fulva. In the fields 

 near Luffness, Campanula hybrida, Silene noctiflora. At Luffness 

 Burn, Carex paludosa. On the neighbouring shore, Salicornia her- 

 bacea, Schoberia maritiraa and Zostera marina. Between Luffness and 

 Aberlady, Trifolium fi-agiferum, Blysmus rufus, Rottbollia incurvata, 

 ft.Jiliformis, Carex distans, Carduus tenuiflorus and Malva rotundi- 

 folia. Near Aberlady, Hippophae rharanoides. At Gosford, Gera- 

 nium sanguineum, Gentiana campestris and Amarella. Near Cocken- 

 zie, Pulicaria dysenterica, Ononis arvensis, Carduus nutans, Rosa 

 spinosissima, rubiginosa, canina and tomentosa. 



William Keddie. 

 June 1845. 



Memoir of the late Mr. Griffith (from the ^Transactions of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society'' for JiDie, 1845^*. 



Mr. Griffith was one of the most accomplished botanists of our 

 day ; with the most accurate and extensive acquisition of learning in 

 his department, he combined such a spirit of activity and enterprise 

 as has been rarely equalled, great talents, and a very remarkable power 

 of labour, arrangement, and application. He was born in the year 

 1810, and was educated at the London University. He went out to 

 India, as an assistant-surgeon on the Madras Establishment, where he 

 arrived on the 24th September 1832, and was shortly afterwards select- 

 ed by the Bengal Government to examine the Botany of the Tenas- 

 serim Provinces. He was, in 1835, deputed to Assam, with Dr. M' 

 Clelland, for the purpose of assisting Dr. Wallich in his inspection of 

 the growth of the tea plant in Assam, and proceeded from thence, in 

 company with Dr. Bayfield, to the then unexplored tracts which lie 

 between Suddiya and Ava, upon the extreme frontier of our Eastern 

 territory. In 1837 he accompanied Captain Pemberton on his mission 

 to the wild countries of Boutan, and two years after was sent, with 

 the army of Indus, to prosecute inquiries into the Botany of Affghani- 

 stan. In 1841 he was appointed to the medical duties of Malacca. 

 Upon Dr. Wallich's absence, owing to illness, at the Cape, Mr. Grif- 

 fith was intrusted with the superintendence of the Botanical Garden 

 at Calcutta, and with the duties of Botanical Professor in the Medical 



