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and provided that we have no other forms of the aggregate 

 vulgaris, there will be no great difficulty in distinguishing 

 them. But M. Buser was surprised at the paucity of British 

 forms, and expressed the belief that the hill-country of the 

 North of England and of Scotland must contain some of the 

 numerous forms that are found in Scandinavia. This may 

 prove to be the case ; but in looking through the Boswell 

 Herbarium (by kind permission of Mr. F. J. Hanbury), and 

 the material at South Kensington and at Kew, I failed to 

 find any forms which were not referable to these three. The 

 following is their distribution in Scotland as at present 

 known to me, the numbers denoting Watson's counties or 

 vice-counties. 



1. A. vulgaris, L. (sensu restricto], (A. pratensis, Schmidt). 

 -This appears to be the most widely distributed British form, 



ranging from the South of England to Orkney. It is very 

 variable in size, with a hairy stem, leaves glabrous above, 

 thinly pubescent beneath, nerves hairy, petioles villous more 

 or less, calyx glabrous. 



72. Dumfries (Moffat), E. F. L. and W. R. L. 



83. Edinburgh ("near Edinburgh"), Hb. Brit. Mus. 



88. Mid Perth (Killin), E. F. L. and W. R. L. 



89. E. Perth (Glen Shee), Hb. W. R. L. 



90. Forfar (Clova), E. F. L. and W. R. L. 



92. South Aberdeen (Braemar), E. F. L. and W. R. L. 

 99. Dumbarton (Dalmuir), L. Watt. 

 ill. Orkney, Hb. Kew. 



This form, which is regarded by M. Buser as the type of 

 A. vulgaris in a narrowed sense, may be expected to occur 

 in every county for which the aggregate is recorded. 



2. A. alpestris, Schmidt (1794). This differs from the 

 last in having the stems glabrous or nearly so, petioles glab- 

 rous, leaves thinly hairy on the principal nerves beneath, and 

 silkily ciliate near the tips of the teeth, otherwise glabrous, 

 calyx glabrous, teeth more acute. This is the same plant 

 Mr. G. C. Druce has written upon, in the " Annals of Scot- 

 tish Natural History," 1893, p. 32, etc., as A. vulgaris, L., 

 var. glabra, Wimm. et Grab. ; but as a varietal name b. glabra> 

 Mert. et Koch, 1823, and Lejeune, 1824, are both earlier. 



