INTRODUCTION. Vll 



"Patrick's Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire." From these two 

 works localities are frequently quoted ; but owing to the many 

 changes taking place in the vicinity of such a city as Glasgow, 

 many of the stations aro destroyed or converted into building 

 ground. However, a good number are still in existence, as recorded 

 in these works; further, they have been used principally to keep 

 in mind our early workers, so that their names may not pass away 

 without due recognition of their services. There are also quota- 

 tions from ' ' The History of Rutherglen and East Kilbride " 

 1793), the work of that most remarkable man, DAVID URE, 

 A.M. a book now becoming highly prized. Mr. JOHN GRAY 

 has lately published an excellent Biographical Memoir of the 

 author, including a critique 011 his work, in which may be found 

 a list of the plants which URE thought worthy of notice, with the 

 modern names appended. 



In the highly instructive and elaborate " Cybele Britannica," 

 of H. C. Watson, wherein the Geographical relations of British 

 plants are enumerated, the following types of distribution are 

 given : 



1. The British Type are those plants more or less diffused all 

 over Britain. 



2. The English Type, plants distinguished by their being chiefly 

 prevalent in England. 



3. The Scottish Type, plants generally confined to Scotland, 

 or becoming rare in the northern parts of England. 



4. The Highland Type refers to the boreal plants, confined 

 chiefly to high mountain tracts, or their vicinity, principally of 

 Scotland, but including those which occur on the mountains of 

 England and Wales. 



5. The Germanic Type, plants characterized b.y a tendency to 

 the south-eastern side of England, a few having their northern 

 limit in the south of Scotland. 



6. The Atlantic Type, those species found principally in the 

 south-western and western sides of England, a few having their 

 northern limit as far north as the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. 



7. A local or doubtful Type, a few species showing no tend- 

 ency to any of the former groups, and being of limited range. 



In the present work the types given above are adopted; an 



