52 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



described and figured ; and each is followed by a long list of the 

 localities whence the author has seen specimens. He gives the fol- 

 lowing, and the collector's name for each, as growing in Scotland 

 (the numbers being those of the monograph) : 



9. borealis, Townsend. Braemar, Melvich Cliffs, and Caithness 

 (all Townsend). 



10. brevipila, Barnat and Gremli (cf. "Journal of Botany," 

 1884, p. 167). " Drosachs " (K. Richter), Foyers and Oban (Towns- 

 end). 



13. nanorosci) Pers. Braemar (Townsend). 



1 6. curta, Fries. Aberdeen (Marshall). 



20. foulaensis, Townsend, in schcd. Shetland Islands, on the 

 Hammerfeld in Foula (Townsend), Burra Fiord and Vord Hill in 

 Unst, and at Ollaberry (Beeby). 



24. gracilis, Fries, (cf. "Journal of Botany," xxii. p. 184). 

 Aberdeen (Nicholson), Scotston Moor near Aberdeen, Foyers, and 

 Oban (Townsend). 



30. scotica, Wettst. ( = -E. paludosa, Townsend, in "Journal of 

 Botany," xxix. (1891), p. 161, nee E. paludosa, R. Br.) Known 

 only from Braemar. 



35. Rosthoviana, Hayne (cf. Townsend in "Journal of Botany," 

 xxii. 1884). Caithness (Linton), Oban (Townsend). 



Linaria viseida, Motnch (L. minor) in Kineardineshire. The 

 tendency of this little toadflax to make its appearance on railways 

 has been noticed in this journal (i. pp. 142, 204) and elsewhere. 

 I last summer, on 2Oth June, found it flowering in fair abundance 

 on the railway between Stonehaven and Muchalls, about a mile 

 from the latter station. I believe that this is considerably beyond 

 any previous record for this plant in Scotland. It has of course 

 been introduced, probably in the ballast used on the line. JAMES 

 W. H. TRAIL. 



Rhinanthus major, Ehrh,, in Aberdeenshire.--This plant is 

 very plentiful in some parts of Fifeshire, e.g. near Elie ; and I 

 have gathered it in Forfarshire, also near Elgin ; but till recently 

 I had never seen it in the counties of Kincardine, Aberdeen, 

 and Banff, nor has it been recorded from them. In July 1894 I 

 observed in a field of barley at Auchnagatt, about twenty miles 

 north of Aberdeen, a single plant in flower. Again, in August 

 1895, I found several plants coming into flower on the site of a 

 stackyard near Glassel, in the valley of the Dee, about twenty miles 

 west of Aberdeen. Though north of the Dee, the locality is within 

 the boundary of Kineardineshire, close to its west frontier. On 

 27th June 1896 I met with this species in some quantity flowering 

 among rye grass in a hayfield near Grandholm, about five miles 

 north of Aberdeen. No doubt the plant has grown in other places 



