CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD A FLORA OF CAITHNESS 45 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO No. 4. 



MR. SUTHERLAND tells me that Messrs. Bain and Tait, of 

 the Caithness Field Club, have helped him in sending me 

 specimens, hence I desire to name them here. 



SCABIOSA ARVENSIS, L. Newton, at the edge of a cornfield, near 

 Hempriggs Loch. A. Sutherland, sp. Perhaps introduced. 

 It occurs in Buchan, Aberdeenshire. 1 Mr. Watson saw it in 

 Easterness, East Ross, and West Sutherland, but distrusted 

 its nativity there, and in " Cyb. Brit." ii. 32, 1849, he remarks, 

 "The species has probably been introduced through agri- 

 culture into the North of Scotland." But though absent in 

 Lapland, it occurs in " Ostersunds Ian " - in Sweden, so that it 

 does not seem altogether impossible as a native in North 

 Scotland. 



ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM, Z., var. viLLOSUM, Hartni., " Skand. Fl." 

 ist ed. 1820. Coast near Scrabster, C. S. Marshall, sp. I 

 am unable to see how this differs from the var. lanatiim, Koch, 

 "Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv." ist ed. 1837. 



PLANTAGO CORONOPUS, Z., var. INTEGRATA, G. et G., " Fl. France," 

 ii. 722, 1850. With viviparous heads, consisting of eighteen 

 to twenty-five leaves, immersed at the base in long white hairs, 

 leaves at base long, and very slightly toothed. Heathy pasture 

 near Reay, 1889, Mr. W. F. Miller!. Mr. Miller has also 

 gathered it on the Isle of Eigg, 1895 



CAREX RIPARIA. Old bog, a former part of the old burn of the 



Kirkstones, which has become partially dried up. It also 



occurs farther down the burn near the Loch of Winless. 

 D. Doull, sp. 



For the following local names I am indebted to Mr. D. 

 Doull :- 



Nymphcea alba, L. Called " Paps," and eaten, with the petals. 



Spergula arvensis, L. Called " Carsa " or "Carran." 



Lotus corniculatus, L. " Crow's-toes." 



Spircea Ulmaria, L. Usually called " Malary tea." 



Chrysanthemum segetum, L. Commonly called "Golans." 



1 Trail, " Fl. Buchan," Ii. 1902, ex "Northern Flora." 

 2 Berlin, "Skand. Halfons," xxii. 1876. 



