NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 81 
the tube of the corolla, and therefore not bent outwards by the. 
rotate divisions of the corolla, as is the case with VM. repens. In 
August, 1878, I got Solanum nigrum on some rubbish heaps in the 
neighbourhood of Greenock. 
Of plants belonging to the order Scrophulariaceae, a few may 
be mentioned  Bartsia viscosa is common in a field behind 
Ashton. Linaria Cymbalaria I have found at various times on 
old walls about Greenock. Verbascwm Thapsus is found in a 
plantation at Wemyss Bay. A plant belonging to this order, and 
which is truly a stranger to these parts, has made its appearance 
in our district of late,—V. blattaria. Last year some very luxuri- 
ant specimens were noticed in a field between Fort-Matilda and 
Gourock; and the other day I saw in the same field some root- 
stocks which gave promise of producing specimens well worth a 
place in our herbaria. This species is said to be native in the 
south-west of England, but after standing such a winter as we are 
just now emerging from—1880-81—I think it is qualified to 
take its place as a sub-arctic species. Mimulus luteus, another 
plant belonging to the order, is found in a ditch about four miles 
out on the Inverkip road; and although the ditch is cleared out 
every season, the Mimulus always comes up the following spring 
as plentifully as ever, which shews it agrees well with its location. 
The Gipsy-wort, Lycopus europaeus, the only rare species of the 
Labiatae occurring in our district, is found below the Cloch Light- 
house. Scutellavia galericulata, which is common on the shore below 
Gourock, is, I notice in Hooker’s Flora entered as “rare in Scotland.” 
Primula veris I have found both at Parklea near Port-Glasgow, and 
at Inverkip. Lysimachia vulgaris was found some years ago near 
Inverkip by Mr. Peter Mackellar, Greenock. Parietaria officinalis 
I once found growing on the Roman Bridge. Whether I had 
injured the plant when securing a part of it for a specimen I cannot 
say, but I have not seen it there since; this species grows plentifully 
on the old wall at the Abbey Walk, St. Andrews. 
Of the Orchidaceae few that may be called uncommon are found 
in our district. Habenaria viridis and H. albida are got on the hills 
behind Greenock, and one or two other places; I have got very fine 
specimens of H. albida on the Tower hill, Gourock ; Neottia nidus- 
avis, which used to be met with in a wood below the Cloch Light- _ 
house, has not been seen for a number of years. The curious little 
Listera cordata, as well as its more robust companion, LZ. ovata, are 
