The Scottish Naturalist. 123 



On October 2, 1872, the following plants were recorded by 

 our party on the actual summit of Ben Lawers : — Saxifraga 

 -cernua, on a rock on the cairn ; Draba rupestris ; Alsine ru- 

 bella; Gnapholium supinum; Carex rigida; Cerastium alpinum; 

 Cerastium latifolium; Festuca ovina vivipara; Alchcmilla alpina; 

 Saxifraga stellar is ; Saxifraga oppositifolia ; Hieraciutn alpinum ; 

 Leontodon Taraxacum ; Cladonia uncialis, &*c. 



I think that your Sagina procumbens? is probably another 

 species of the genus — possibly S. saxatilis. 



Cam Chreag is a very productive hill. I have examined 

 it several times. Draba rupestris grows also on Benean. 



Edinburgh, 15th April, 1875. 



[In our " Notes" we never intended that the localities indi- 

 cated should be supposed to be " new" ones for all the plants 

 mentioned. Every botanist who visits Ben Lawers must know 

 that Sagina nivalis is one of the many plants added to our lists 

 by the ever energetic Professor Balfour. Ben Laoigh is south- 

 west of Tyndrum; Kobresia grows in several places in that 

 district. The " Sagina procumbens?" is probably a form of 

 S. saxatilis. — F. B. W. W.] 



ON SOME VAKIETIES OF TEE PKIMROSE POUND IN 



PIPESHIEE. 



The common primrose, Primula vulgaris, is generally distributed on the 

 grassy banks that flank the many streamlets with which the county abounds, 

 and where they are much admired, not only for the sweetness and beauty 

 •of their flowers, but also from their being associated with a sunny sky, as 

 the heralds of spring, as the poet thus expresses — 



"Welcome thou again, love-listening primrose. 



The cowslip, Primula veris, although widely distributed over the county, 

 is more localised. On the light sandy soil near Elie it lends, when in flower a 

 yellow covering over the grass, extending to great distances. In woods and 

 dens throughout the inland parts of the county it is also met with. 



Our indigenous Primulas attracted the attention of the old florists, who 

 admitted them among florist flowers under the names of primroses 

 and polyanthuses, which were held by them in great esteem. The 

 differential representation of extended or contracted individual organs 

 together with the various shades of colours, as they raised large diversities 



from seed, displayed to them an epitome of nature — unity in diversity 



diversity in unity. 



We had occasion to notice among our Primulas several differential 

 appearances, when during a very limited period we were working up the 



