82 Plants, &c, of Selkirkshire, by Rev. J. Farquharson. 



Club, and ask for it a place in their Transactions, not on the as- 

 sumption that it is complete,! but in the hope that it may be the 

 foundation of a County Flora, which others will lend their aid to 

 perfect. In the Galashiels district, for instance, I have botanized 

 very little, and plants must be forthcoming from that quarter to 

 add to the number now recorded ; and that without reckoning 

 the foreigners which have got a precarious hold on the shores of 

 the Gala, their seeds having been first washed from the foreign 

 fleeces scoured in the woollen factories and skin-works of Gala- 

 shiels, and then carried by the polluted waters of the stream to 

 the gravel-beds at its mouth. 



Incomplete, then, as the following list is, I trust it will interest 

 the botanical members of the Club. To some of them it may 

 appear worth completing, and from the note at the end it will be 

 seen that our indefatigable member, Mr Brotherston, of Kelso, 

 has set an example in this direction. 



t I have not, for example, found the following species within the county, 

 although one might say they should be there, and I expect yet to find them : — 



Ranunculus sceleratus. Convolvulus arvensis. 



Papaver Bhoeas. 



Argemone. 



Lychnis Githago. 

 Stellaria glauca. 

 Cerastium semidecandrum. 

 Radiola millegrana. 

 Genista Anglica. 

 Sedum Telephium. 



acre. 



Helosciadium inundatum. 

 Valerianella olitoria. 

 Centaurea Cyanus. 

 Chrysanthemum segetum. 



Stachys arvensis. 

 Anagallis arvensis. 

 Atriplex patula. 

 Polygonum viviparum. 

 Eumex conglomeratus. 

 Salix pentandra. 

 Habenaria albida. 

 Sparganium simplex. 

 Juncus supinus. 

 Scirpus fluitans. 

 Catabrosa aquatica. 

 Hordeum murinum. 



List of Flowering Plants and Ferns. 



Note. — The nomenclature adopted is that of "The London 

 Catalogue of British Plants," 7th edition, 1874. I have, how- 

 ever, retained the old names of a few species, as given in 

 " Hooker and Arnott's British Flora," 6th edition, 1850, having 

 been unable, with the means at my disposal, to determine which 

 of the species in the London Catalogue correspond with the 



