104 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 

 By G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, M.A., F.L.S. 



Thalictrum dunense, Dumort. Lunan Bay. 

 Ranunculus heterophyllus, Weber, ex Wigg. Rescobie. 



R. Lingua, L. A form with rather more hairy leaves than usual 

 occurred at Rescobie. 



Cardamine pratensis, L. The true plant with sessile leaflets grew 

 with C. palustris, Petermann, in a marsh at Rescobie. 



Viola tricolor, Z., V. saxatilis (Schmidt), var. Sagoti (Jord.). Near 



Forfar. 

 Cerastium tetrandrum, Curt. On the coast near Lunan Bay. 



Spergula sativa, Boenn. Forfar. 



Arenaria serpyllifolia, Z., var. scabra, Fenzl. Burnside. 



Erodium cicutarium, LHer., var. micranthum, Beck. Lunan Bay. 



Vicia Cracca, L. With curious steel-blue coloured flowers at Lunan 



Bay. 

 Rubus Selmeri, Lindeb. Near Forfar. 



Potentilla palustris, Scop., var. villosa, S. F. Gray (" Nat. Arr.," ii. 



581). In a marsh at Rescobie. 

 Alchemilla vulgaris, Z., var. alpestris (Schmidt). At Rescobie, with 



the var. pratensis (Schmidt). 



Crataegus Oxyacantha, L. (C. monogyna, Jacq.). With barren 

 fruits, near Forfar. Herr Freyn queries it as a hybrid with 

 C. oxyacanthoides ; but I saw no specimens of the latter plant 

 at Forfar. 



Callitriche intermedia, Hoffm. (= C. hamulata, Kuetz.). Rescobie. 



Pimpinella Saxifraga, Z., var. major, Koch. By the shores of Lunan 

 Bay. 



Galium elongatum, Presl. Rescobie Marsh. 



Myrrhis Odorata, Scop. Near Restennet. 



* Artemisia Stelleriana, Bess. This native of Kamtschatka, which 

 has become quite naturalised on the sandy coast of Scania in 

 Southern Sweden, in Oeland, and along the eastern freeboard 

 of the United States for some distance, also appeared in 

 quantity on the coast of Co. Dublin. In the latter place 

 strong evidence was given to show that it had escaped, or been 

 accidentally conveyed to the coast from Lord Ardilaun's 

 garden, where it had been used as a bedding plant. The 

 curious point in all the cases where it has been found is that 



