238 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



" Eng. Bot." i. 167, Syme refers to the continental ciliata 

 being, according to Godet, A. arcuata, " Shuttleworth " ; but 

 Mr. N. E. Brown must have had this before him, when he 

 said var. hirsuta, Koch, must replace hispida, Syme. The 

 Rev. E. F. Linton "Bot. Exch. Rep." 1899, is my authority 

 for the name propinqua (Jord.) for Mr. Marshall's plant from 

 Uist, which he says M. Rouy named A. Retziana, var. Jiispida. 

 Nyman puts Retziana as a sub-species of hirsuta^ occurring 

 in Norway, Sweden, etc. 



Is the var. hispida^ Syme, Irish only, as given in " Lond. 

 Cat." ? 



Erophila inftata is cited as of Watson in Hooker's 

 " Students' Flora," ed. 3, p. 35, I 884 ; but it is there as a sub- 

 species only. 



Bentham and Hooker are followed in separating Conringia 

 from Erysimnm in my list. Nyman does the same in the 

 " Conspectus." 



As Mr. White points out Jordan wrote Thlaspi occitanicum. 

 I follow Syme in giving the three varieties which he, how- 

 ever, treated as sub-species. The petals of the Derbyshire 

 virens, he says, differ from those of authenticated specimens 

 as named by M. Jordan. 1 



V. odorata, var. imberbis, Leighton, is a slight, though 

 permanent, variety in which a tuft of hairs situate at the 

 inner base of the lateral petals is wanting. It was named 

 from the white-flowered plant by Leighton, and is more 

 frequently to be found of that colour ; but the blue-flowered 

 plant also exhibits the same hairless variation. Leighton 

 first named it as a species, and subsequently as a variety.' 2 



Under the Violets, as elsewhere, I have tried to omit 

 mere colour forms. There is considerable divergence in the 

 two lists in treating the Melanium group. Even the more 

 matured views of Dr. Drabble are scarcely, I expect, final ; 

 and I prefer to keep the plants under one or other of two 

 super species. I would add to my List var. Provostii, Bor., 

 and var. vivariensis (Jord.) under V. tricolor. 



Frankenia Icevis, L. The comital distribution is twelve. 



1 Babington in introducing this plant to our flora misspelt it ocdtanum. 



2 Dr. Stokes in " With. Nat. Arr." ii. 955 (1787) first describes this variety, 

 but he did not name it. 



