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| | True Dirt: a Melancholy Thistle on Nithdale holm |
 | | In this case we must find on a map the Mull of Galloway in Solway Firth and follow from its coastal estuary the River Nith which meanders eastward to Drumlanrig, the Scaur, and Beld Craig Linn. |
 | | A lake is a loch and a holm an alluvial plain in the dales of river valleys. |
 | | Carduus heterophyllus, so named by that intrepid cataloger Linneas, but familiar to Dumfriesians as "Melancholy Thistle" is found along the silty alluvial dales of the River Nith, first sighted by J. Shaw, Esquire, of Tynron, and verified by the Misses Hannay, who noted "Specimens seen". |
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