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(1835), 201, he gives " Aberdeenshire, Dr. Graham," adding 

 in the fifth ed. ( I 842), 130," Ben-na-Bord." This is probably 

 M'Nab's habitat. This seems to be the first separate Scotch 

 record under the name, but still mixed with 5. decipiens. 



Babington in all the editions of the Manual, 1843 to 

 1904, has this mixture, adding in his first "Westmoreland, 

 Dickson ! " So it would seem that the first actual record 

 for the true plant is by Watson (" Cyb. Brit." i. 1847, 417), 

 made on the strength of Dr. M. Barry's Ben Avon examples ; 

 authenticated by Dr. B. Syme in " Eng. Bot." 3rd ed. iv. 

 (1865), p. 79, where the plant is well described. 



SOME REMARKS ON EUPHRASIA AND 

 RHINANTHUS 



By REV. E. S. MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. 



MR. DRUCE and Mr. Beeby call attention (pp. 101-2, 106) 

 to Dr. Ostenfeld's having combined Enphrasia scottica (Prof. 

 Wettstein so spelt it, and Mr. Townsend arbitrarily altered 

 the spelling), of which E. paludosa, Towns, (non Br.), is a 

 synonym, and E. fotilaensis with E. minima. As I know E. 

 scottica and E. foulaensis pretty well, and am not at all dis- 

 posed to consider them as belonging to one segregate, I 

 venture to briefly give some reasons for keeping them apart 

 Well-developed specimens, according to my experience, are 

 always quite readily separable at a glance ; stunted plants 

 may be more difficult. Unfortunately, I have but a very 

 slight acquaintance with E. minima, though I collected the 

 typical yellow-flowered form of the Swiss Alps many years 

 ago. But E. scottica normally occurs in wet ground, especi- 

 ally on heaths, and is semi-parasitic on Cariccs ; whereas E. 

 minima chooses Grasses for its host-plants, and does not 

 appear to show any special fondness for boggy places. 

 Differences of colour, texture, etc., which strike the eye at 

 once in living specimens, disappear when they are dried ; and 

 I believe that it is safer to follow Wettstein and Townsend 

 in regarding E. scottica as distinct. 



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With respect to E. foulaensis I have no doubt. In Scot- 



