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So far as I have seen specimens, it seems to be all of one 

 form in Britain, but in Scandinavia it occurs as the var. ft 

 glabrata, Hartm, and a / mbra of Svanlund. 



The flowering stems are said to be erect in many books, 

 but this is true only of the central one, the others (in varying 

 numbers) are at first procumbent and then erect. Dr. Syme 

 in " English Botany," ed. 3, remarks x that " in the living plants 

 he has seen from Orkney the bracts are herbaceous." In 

 specimens from the Thurso river, R. Lindsay, May 1904; 

 they are richly coloured with purple, and much more regular 

 and equidistant than the figure in " English Botany " would 

 lead one to suppose. This makes the specimens very unlike 

 A. reptans. The plant is as certainly perennial in some parts 

 (Inverness and O. Hebrides) as it is biennial in others 

 (Sutherland). Under the name of A. genevensis, L., specimens 

 have been reported in Britain. Dr. Syme says that Sir J. 

 D. Hooker sent Mr. Watson a specimen among plants 

 collected in Lanarkshire, and that there is an example of it 

 from Wales in Buddie's Herbarium. A. reptans with scarcely 

 any or very short stolons has been reported as A. alpina, L. 

 Bentham combines the two, but looking at genevensis in its 

 usual form I do not think they are difficult to separate. 



Taking the counties in their Watsonian sequence it 

 occurs, or has done so in 



72. DUMFRIES. 

 On Black's Hope about 1250 feet, J. T. Johnstone, 1888. 



96. EASTERNESS. 



Strath-Erric, Dr. Maclachlan in "Brit. Flora," 273 (1830). I 

 have seen no specimens thence, and do not know of any recent 

 occurrence of it. 



97. WESTERNESS? DR. HOPE. 



The query may be removed, as Mr. S. M. Macvicar has found it 

 and sent me a specimen from Dorlin, Moidart, Acharacle, altitude 

 10 feet. Ben Nevis, in Lochaber, Dr. Hope, "Flora Scotica," 179 

 (1821). 



98. ARGYLE. 



Appin, Capt. Carmichael in " Fl. Scotica," 179 (1821). So far 



1 Vol. vii. 79, 1867. 



