NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SOUTH ABERDEENSHIRE 35 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SOUTH 

 ABERDEENSHIRE. 



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



A FEW days were spent in 1899 i n this interesting vice- 

 county, principally with a view to climb the precipices of 

 Lochnagar in order to look for the forms of Carex canescens 

 and for the plants reported as Poa lux a and Poa stricta. 

 Among the plants noticed were the following : 



* Ranunculus Steveni, Andrz. (on which Herr Freyn reports, " forma 

 3, latisecta, obtusiloba grandiflora R. acris, J. Vahl, ' Ic. Fl. 

 Danica,' t. 2415 "). From the cliffs of Lochnagar at 2600 feet. 



Caltha palustris, L., var. procumbens^ Beck. On the tableland of 

 Lochnagar and above Glen Callater. 



*C. radicans, Font. Near Invercauld, in a marsh by the Dee. 

 Cochlearia alpina, H. C. ]]^ats. Lochnagar. 



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



Brae mar. 



Sagina nodosa, Fenzl. Ascends to 1600 feet in Glen Callater. 

 Alchemilla vulgaris, Z., var. alpestris (Schmidt). Ballater, etc. 



Taraxacum officinale ( Weber), ex Wigg. In the Spout of Lochnagar, 

 at 2300 feet, as the var. alpinum, Koch, " Syn.," p. 428 (1837), 

 teste Freyn. The description is : " Involucri foliola exteriora 

 ovata, patentia, interiora ante apicem non corniculata." It is 

 the Leontodon alpinus of Hoppe, in Sturm's " Deutsch. Fl.," 

 heft 41, but is not confined to mountainous localities, as I have 

 it from the neighbourhood of Oxford. 



Gnaphalium norvegicum, Gnnn. Was in fine condition on 

 Lochnagar. 



G. sylvaticum, L. Some years ago I distributed, through the 

 Exchange Club, some alpine forms of this species, with broader 

 leaves and darker involucres, under the name of var. alpinum. 

 Having seen the true norvegicum from Lochnagar, I should be 

 inclined to refer some specimens which I gathered from Glen 

 Dole and near Killin to this variety, which Professor Babington 

 with some doubt referred to norvegicum. 



Euphrasia gracilis, Fries. Glen Callater, etc. 



E. curta, Fries. Between Castleton and Creag-na-dala-bige. 



E. scotica, Wettst. Glen Callater and Lochnagar. 



E. brevipila, Burnat and Gremli. Braemar. 



