234 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Apium immdatnm, Reichenb. f. The same remarks apply to this as 



to Peplis Porttila. 

 Galiiim uliginosttm, L. Recorded from several localities within our 



area before 1840; but this, no doubt, perished locally when 



the marshes were drained. 



Valerianella olitoria, Poll. Recorded from a limited part of the 

 dunes near Old Aberdeen, and from a field near Woodside, 

 this was probably indigenous here ; but it has apparently not 

 been found during the last seventy years. 



Aster Tripolium, L. Found on the estuary of the Dee before 1840 

 by Dickie, though probably scarce ; and it seems to have 

 become extinct there long before the estuary was altered. It 

 is plentiful by the S. Esk near Montrose, and occurs in smaller 

 quantity by the estuary of the N. Esk ; but it does not now 

 grow near Aberdeen, 



Filago germanica, L. Recorded as a rare plant on waste ground 

 and tops of walls " in arenosis siccis " (Skene), and about 

 Stocket and Rubislaw (Knight and others), this species seems 

 not to have been found within Aberdeen area for a long time. 



Antennaria dioica, R. Br. Disappeared almost wholly with the 

 reclaiming of the drier moorlands. 



Taraxacum officinale, Weber, var. palustre (DC.). Once common 

 in the marshes, but locally extirpated (or nearly so) by 

 drainage. 



Menyanthes trifoliata, L. No doubt formerly common here, and 

 recorded from one or two of the marshes in the early part of 

 last century, this species has perished through drainage and 

 cultivation of its habitats. 



Mertensia maritima, S. F. Gray. In very small quantity in the 

 sand at Donmouth in 1835. There is no later record for 

 Aberdeen. It was not uncommon among shingle at the Bay 

 of Nigg, where it was noted by Beattie ; but it became extinct 

 there before 1880, owing to the shingle being removed and 

 used to form concrete blocks for building the South Pier at the 

 mouth of the Dee. 



Veronica scutellata, L. Formerly common in wet moors and in 

 swamps, this seems not to have survived here when its haunts 

 were drained. 



Bartsia Odontites, Huds. Found in damp natural pastures and by 

 roads in damp spots, this species has not been observed in 

 Aberdeen for about thirty years, so far as I can learn. 



Pedicularis palustris, L. Though, no doubt, once plentiful on all 

 wet moors and in peat mosses in Aberdeen, this appears to 

 have ceased to exist locally when the surface was drained. 



