Vol 13 - Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian ...

10 Botanical Records for 1896.
Henbane are spreading, and are now abundant in Rigg- Bay,
Garliestown. These two, with Black horehound (Ballota nigra)
and Teasel, are all outcasts from the gardens of Galloway House.
The two—Chenopodiums and Atriplexes—were in great profusion,
and among them Atnplex Httoralis, new to Wigtownshire. Beta
viaritima we also gathered there. In Galloway House Woods
the Rev. Mr Gorrie gathered Geranium pratense. Further south
I saw a large bed of Pulicaria dysenterica. At Sorbie I gathered
Veronica Biixbaumii as a garden weed, and Mentha sativa, var.
paludosa, by the side of Sorbie Burn. Mr Gorrie finds Utricularia
intertnedia in Capenoch Moss. To sum up, the following are new
records for Wigtownshire :— 1, Miliuni effusum, Wood of Park,
Glenluce; 2, Potamogeton lucens, Whitefield Loch, Glenluce; 3,
Atriplex Httoralis, Rigg Bay, Garliestown ; 4, Ballota nigra, Rigg
Bay ; 5, Mentha sativa, var. paludosa, Sorbie Bum ; 6, Carpinus
betulis (Hornbeam), planted in the woods of Galloway House;
7, Orobus macrorhizus, var. tetiuifolius, by the Rev. James Gorrie,
near Moss Park, Sorbie.
At Carsethorn Mr Samuel Arnott and I had several delightful
botanical rambles. We were disappointed in not finding several
of the rare plants recorded for Arbigland, Southerness, and
surrounding" neighbourhood. Tlie only new record for that
district and for Kirkcudbrightshire is Potamogeton pectinatus,
which I gathered in a ditch in the merse west of Southerness.
In the same ditch g-rew Glyceria or Poa aquatica, the same grass
which grows in such abundance in the moat of Caerlaverock
Castle. Now Catabrosa aquatica is recorded for the Merse, west
of Southerness, and I am almost certain that in this case there has
been a confusion of names, as the two grasses are very unlike
each other, though the name aquatica occurs in both. I was glad
to be able to find and confirm Scirpus Tabernoeinontani in abund-
ance in the same locality and also north of the mouth of Kirkbean
Bum. The three plants I was most anxious to find at Southerness
were Lepturus filiformis, var. incurvatus, the Isle of Man Cabbage,
and the Sea Bindweed. 1 spent part of two days searching for
them, but in vain, /uncus Balticus, at Gillfoot, no doubt is a
mistake, and is an example among several others of plants being
at first incorrectly named, admitted into a local list, and afterwards
copied by succeeding compilers. Among plants I gathered
in the neighbourhood of Carsethorn and Southerness were Hippiiris