98 Transactions. 
Urococcus vnsignis (Hass), Kiitz. 
Epithemia gibberula (Ehrnb.) Kiitz, var. rupestris, (W. Sm.) 
Rabh. 
Eunotia incisa, Greg. 
Do. majus, var. bidens, W. Sm. 
Do. gracilis, Khrnb. 
Do.  ectinalis, var. undulatum, Ralfs. 
Synedra lunaris, var. wndulata, Rabh. 
Do. biceps, Kiitz. 
Nitaschra tenuis, W. Sm. 
Navicula sercans (Breb.), Kiitz. 
Pinnularia nobilis, Ehrnb. 
Do. gibba, Ehrnb. 
2. A Superstetious Custom in Galloway. 
By Mr Joun M‘Kie, Kirkcudbright. 
Superstition dies hard, as newspapers still occasionally record, 
and it is often found that customs linger in the land for genera- 
tions after the cause which first led to their adoption has dis- 
appeared. The habit of putting ‘‘cowsherne” into the mouth of 
a young calf before it was allowed to suck its mother is one 
commonly practised within my recollection. Having once asked 
an old woman, whom I had just seen perform the operation why 
she did so she then gave me the following legend :—“ In the 
olden time, when Galloway was stocked with the black breed of 
cattle, there was a carle who had a score of cows, not one of 
which had a white hair on it ; they were the pride of the owner, 
and the admiration of all who saw them. One day while they 
were being driven out, the carle’s dog worried the cat of an 
old woman who lived in a hut hard by, and though he had always 
treated her with great kindness, and expressed sorrow for what 
his dog had done, she cursed him and all his belongings. After- 
wards, when the cows began to calve, instead of giving fine rich 
milk, as formerly, they only gave a thin watery ooze on which the 
calves dwined away to skin and bone. During this unfortunate 
state of affairs a pilgrim on his journey, probably to the shrine of 
St. Ninian, sought lodgings for the night. The wife of the carle, 
though rather unwilling to take in a stranger during the absence 
of her husband, who was on a journey, eventually granted his 
request. On her making excuse for the poverty of the milk she 
