10 Transactions, 
8th November, 1894. 
Mr James G. H. Starke, M.A., in the Chair. 
New Member.—Captain William Stewart of Shambellie. 
Donations.—Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 
North Carolina, 1893; Report of the Smithsonian Institution 
for 1892; Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smith- 
sonian Institution ; and the Pamunkey Indians of Virginia ; the 
Maya Year; and the Bibliography of Wakashan Languages 
(published by the same Bureau). 
Exhibit.— Mr Starke exhibited a Cell found at Goldielea a few 
years ago. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
1. Botanical Notes for 1894. 
By James M‘AnprEw, New-Galloway. 
WicTowNsHIRE.— During the past summer (1894) Mr Dugald 
MacFarlane, B.A., Greenock, and I were fortunate in adding a 
few more new plants to the Flora of Wigtownshire. The following 
six plants are new records for that county :—1, Ranunculus 
Lenormandt, growing in hill ditches cleaned out last year, on the 
south side of Kilitringan Fell, Portpatrick, &c. ; 2, Ranunculus 
circinatus, growing in abundance at the south end of Soulseat 
Loch ; 3, Calamintha acinos, with every appearance of being 
wild, on an earth dyke between Castle-Kennedy Station and 
Soulseat Loch ; 4, Sisymbriwm thaliana, at Port Kale, Port- 
patrick (this is a spring plant, and has almost disappeared before 
July or August); 5, Bromus sterilis, close to the gamekeeper’s 
cottage, Dunskey ; 6, Carex filiformis, found by the Rev. James 
Gorrie, F.C., Sorbie, in Prestrie Loch, Whithorn. 
Among other interesting plants not formerly seen by me 
around Portpatrick may be mentioned—AFadiola millegranna, in 
several places among the moors; Scrophularia aquatica, in a 
ditch near the gamekeeper’s cottage, Dunskey; Pulicaria 
dysenterica, on the grassy slopes between Portpatrick and 
Dunskey Glen; J/unews glaucus, Carex intermedia, Calystegia 
soldanella, in Knock Bay ; Huphorbia portlandica, North of 
Port 0’ Spital ; Lycopodium clavatum, on the old Stranraer road, 
about four miles east of Portpatrick (this confirms this plant for 
