NOTES ON THE FLORA OF CLYDESDALE. 



institutions a number of plants of rather dubious nativity. On and 

 about the walls of Bothwell Castle are found Parietaria officinalis, 

 an undoubted native, but very rare in the west; Allium Scorodo- 

 prasum, Ruscus aculeatus, Daphne Laureola, Scrophularia Ehrharti, 

 S. vernalis, Chelidonium majus, and on the opposite bank of the 

 Clyde, about the ruins of Blantyre Priory, Aquilegia vulgaris, Tulipa 

 sylvestris, Geranium phceum, and a good many more very doubtful 

 natives. At Craignethan Castle we get Nepeta Cataria, certainly 

 a native, but one of the rarest plants to be met with in the west 

 of Scotland. 



The above remarks might be greatly extended by the addition of 

 farther examples, but perhaps enough has: been done in that direc- 

 tion already to afford a general idea of the Vascular Flora of the West 

 of Scotland. 



JAMES RAMSAY. 



