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lion. Plans and charts have been kindly lent by Mr Nigel 

 Wilson, the cngfineer, and he has also afforded the writer 

 very valuable information from his own experience. 



Some Galloway Plants. 



By James Fraser. 



The Following- list of plants for Kirkcudbright and 

 Wigtown may be of some help and interest to those who are 

 studying the Flora of these delightful counties. 



All the plants from Kirkcudbrightshire mentioned in 

 this list were seen during 1910, in August of which 1 spent 

 a holiday of two weeks at Castle-Douglas, a charming town 

 and a convenient centre from which one can easily reach to 

 Douglas Hall in the east, New-Galloway in the north, and 

 Creetown in the west. The Wigtownshire plants were seen 

 during a holiday spent in that picturesque and famous 

 summer resort, Portpatrick, in August of 191 1 and of 1912. 

 when the district, from Challoch Junction to Lochnaw, and 

 from Stranraer to the Mull of Galloway, was explored as 

 completely as the tropical heat of the former year and the 

 almost arctic cold of the latter would allow. 



The number of new species added to the Floras of the 

 counties since the publication (in 1882 for Kirkcudbrightshire 

 and in 1894 for Wigtownshire) of Mr M'Andrew's Floras 

 (modestly entitled " Lists ") is remarkably small, and the 

 smallness of the number bears testimony to the care and 

 completeness with which these counties were botanized and 

 the " Lists " compiled by that keen observer and veteran 

 botanist, who, we rejoice to know, is still as enthusiastic as 

 ever in the pursuit of his favourite hobby. I have not 

 materially added to the number of hitherto unrecorded 

 species, except in the case of that class of plants usually 

 referred to as " casual " or " alien," such as those which 

 for many years have appeared annually on the shore of Loch 

 Ryan, near the Sheuchan Mills at Stranraer. Any plants 

 mentioned herein wfiich have not, as far as I know, been 

 previously observed in the respective counties are indicated 

 (to the number of 27) by a star in front of the name, two, or 



