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ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ALPINA, Spreng. Mr. Nicolson names Ben 

 Dorrery as a station for this. This will be, I suppose, about 

 500 ft. alt., as there is a B.M. about f mile away given as 387', 

 and the contour of 500 is within the same distance. In 

 "Scot. Nat," 1889, p. 42, Mr. Grant and I give "Ben 

 Shurrery, 1852," from Dick's Herbarium. Is this the same 

 station ? As Lake Shurrery is within a mile and a half it may 

 be so. It is much more abundant in Sutherland. 



AZALEA PROCUMBENS, L. Mr. Nicolson, I.e., says he gathered this, 

 on 5th June 1884, "on the top of Morven, on the east side, 

 near a ' well ' or natural spring." 



ERICA TETRALIX, L. Robert Dick observes : " I have watched 

 Calluna vulgaris and Erica cinerea, and never yet among 

 thousands of thousands found a notable variety. But with E. 

 Tetralix the case is very different. It is subject to strange 

 shiftings and changings, and I have some delightful varieties of 

 it" (Smiles' "Life of R. Dick," p. 294). 



PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA, L. I find Mrs. Wahab gathered this 

 within a \ mile of the Caithness border, i.e. between the Ord 

 Point and Dun Glas, where the altitude " 652 " is marked on 

 the Ordnance Map. 



P. MEDIA, Su, Lybster Burn, J. Grant, sp.; Scorrieclett, A. 

 Sutherland, sp. 



*VlNCA MINOR, L. 



PRIMULA SCOTICA, Hooker. " Prof. Balfour showed a piece of turf 

 with several specimens of P. scotica from near Thurso, sent by 

 Mr. R. Heddle, showing the flowering from May to September, 

 and that the later flowers had the limb of the corolla much 

 thrown back" ("Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 1847). Mr. Nicolson 

 says (I.e.} the local name for this is " Dusty Miller." 1 I cannot 

 help thinking I have heard this name applied to some other 

 British plant, but cannot remember to what, if so applied. 



SYMPHYTUM TUBEROSUM, L. Just above water-level on the Wick 

 river, i mile above Wick, R. Bain, sp. 



*S. ASPERRIMUM, Bieb. Thurso, Druce ("Ann. S.N.H.," 1904, 



i7i). 

 MYOSOTIS PALUSTRIS, Hill, var. NEMOROSA (Besser}. On the 



Reay sands, by a small rivulet, Druce, I.e. Besser ("Enum. 



Vol., Pod.," etc., 1822, p. 52) gives this as a species; it is a 



plant of Lithuania, Volhynia, and Siberia. 



1 [The name " Dusty Miller" is applied in some parts of Scotland to Primula 

 Auricula, because of the dusty coating of wax on the leaves, and may probably 

 be used for other species that show a similar covering. ED. " A.S.N.H."] 



