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Additional List of the Rarer Plants growing near Colvend. 

 By Peter Gray, Esq. 



Allow me to offer, by way of addendum to the list I furnished last 

 year, a few additional stations in Colvend for less frequently occur- 

 ring species included in the first volume of Hooker's ' British Flora.' 

 They have been ascertained by my friend, the Rev. James Fraser, in 

 the course of occasional rambles in his interesting parish during the 

 season just elapsed. 



Carex extensa. Marshes near the detached rock on the coast, 

 called by the aborigines " Lot's Wife;" and about Glenstockiug. 



distans. Along almost the whole coast. 



Eryngium maritimum. Shore near the mill-stone quarry. 



Lycopus europceus. Lockhouse ; border of Manse Loch, and se- 

 veral other places. 



(Enanthe pimpinelloides. Marshes near Lot's Wife, and sea-side 

 near Glenlufiin. 



Utricularia minor. Cloak Moss, between Colvend and the parish 

 of Urr. 



Osmunda regalis. Waterfall at Lot's Wife. 



In a wood between Colvend and the village of Dalbeattie, in the 

 neighbouring parish of Urr, Mr. Fraser also finds Convallaria majalis, 

 "to all appearance indigenous." And across the estuary of the Urr, 

 on the walls of the old tower of Orchard-town, in the parish of Buit- 

 tle, as well as upon the old dyke surrounding it, growing out of the 

 decaying lime, he has found Ceterach officinarum. My correspon- 

 dent also informs me that Ophioglossum vulgatum is said to grow 

 abundantly in a marsh in the adjoining parish of Kirkbean. This I 

 shall endeavour to authenticate. I know only one locality in the 

 county of Dumfries for this pretty fern ; " a marsh," however, is not, 



1 should think, a likely habitat. 



Peter Gray. 

 Queen Street, Dumfries, 

 November 21, 1849. 



P. S. — In last year's list Leonurus Cardiaca and Meum athamanti- 

 cum were given through some inadvertence on the part of my infor- 

 mant as denizens of Colvend. Neither, I now understand, is known 

 to grow there ; although the discovery of the latter is not improbable, 

 as it grows about here in a similar country. I may mention, too, that, 

 confounding the names of two Carices similar in meaning, however 



