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I have seen no Hebridean specimens of the plants called var. 

 Mackaii, though it grows together with the type in Lancashire, 

 and occurs in Scotland in East Sutherland (J. Grant, sp.}, 

 West Sutherland (Hanbury, sp.\ also in the Isle of Eigg ! and 

 Moidart ! Taking the series of Curtisii forms from Caithness 

 to Devon it seems difficult (if not impossible ?) to make any 

 separation of forms. The larger set of forms when placed 

 together are no more different than the smaller ones placed 

 together ; each and all can be sorted by the eye, but when 

 characters are sought they fail. 



FUMARIA OFFICINALIS, L. Isle of Barra, 1888. A. Somerville, sp. 



F. CAPREOLATA, L. (sensu stricto). Potato field, Scarp. W. S. 



Duncan, sp. 

 F. CONFUSA, Jord. Scarp, W. S. Duncan, sp. ; South Uist, A. 



Somerville, sp. Sandy meadows near Ballelock, North Uist, 



Dr. Shoolbred, sp. The above Fumarias are named according 



to Mr. Pugsley's paper, but not by him. 



CRAMBE MARITIMA, L. Head of Loch Maddy, North Uist, on 

 sand, June 1848. D. C. Burlingham. 



" Plants, Sea-Kale, Viola httea, Glaux maritima, Arenaria 

 peploides, Scurvy-grass." The above is an extract from the 

 note-book of Mr. D. C. Burlingham, quoted by Dr. C. B. 

 Plowright in an obituary notice of him in "Trans. Norf. and 

 Norwich Nat. Society," vol. vii. p. 414, 1902. Mr. Burlingham 

 was a good botanist and ornithologist. He was at Tarbert, 

 Obbe, Balallan, Loch Erisort, etc. By the kindness of Dr. 

 Plowright I have ascertained that there is no specimen in his 

 herbarium. In Scotland the records take it to Islay, one of 

 the South Hebrides islands, and to Forfarshire on the east coast. 

 In Sweden it occurs in Skane to Upland, in South Norway 

 (about 59 N. lat.). It used to occur in "Nylandia" in Finland, 

 and in Aboensis in the south of that country. That it is a 

 species gradually becoming rarer on our coasts, seems certain 

 by the records, etc., of the last fifty years. 



SILENE ACAULIS, L. Abundant on the western part of the North 

 Harris range of mountains, W. S. Duncan. Ceartaval at 1800 

 feet, Duncan, sp. Shetland at sea-coast, Watson, 400-800 feet, 

 Tate. Orkney, 150 feet, Syme. West Sutherland, 600-800 

 feet, Marshall. Perth, 1200 feet, B. White. North England, 

 1200-1800 feet, Baker. "On the mountain on the Isle of 

 Rume called Ascheval, where I found it growing about 1500 

 to 1700 feet high, July 21, 1764," Rev. J. Walker, 1 sp. 

 Isle of Mull, south side of the entrance of Loch-na-Keal, at 



1 Author of "Essays on Natural History," 1812. See " Biog. Index of 

 Brit, and Irish Botanists," 175, 1893. 



