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tax. procumbens Rostrup remains unaltered in cultivation; entirely 

 maintaining its prostrate habit, and three-flowered cyme. 



Anthyllis vulneraria L. *var. ovata Bab. in litt. This 

 frame must replace the " var. maritima Koch," recorded in my 

 last paper. Professor Babington corrected me on this point last 

 March, remarking, " I have not seen anything like this. The 

 broad ovate solitary or terminal leaflet and the remarkable pubes- 

 cence are striking. But it is not the A. maritima Schweigg. . . 

 * . neither have I anything like it in my Arctic collection." Dr. 

 Lange reports on specimens collected last year " var. macrophylla 

 Lange ad int.; Robusta, sericea, foliolo terminali maximo, ovali ; 

 conferenda cum var. maritima, cujus forsan forma." I have 

 adopted the first proposed varietal name ; but the terminal leaflet 

 varies from broadly ovate, through oval, to the commoner oblong- 

 oval form. 



% var. Dillenii (Schultz) U. Sparingly on the serpentine 

 near the sea at the Wick of Hagdale ; thence, going inland, it 

 passes through forms, (i) with flowers variegated cream-coloured 

 and crimson ; (2) flowers pale cream-coloured ; and finally be- 

 comes the ordinary yellow-flowered form of larger growth. 

 Edmondston mentions Dillenii as occurring. 



Rubus saxatilis L. U. Springfield, as recorded by Tate. 

 Only barren plants were seen. 



t Geum rivale L. S. In small quantity, in grassy places 

 among rocks, by the west side of Tingwall Loch. This is the 

 only species of Geum on record alike for Shetland, Faroes, and 

 Iceland. 



Epilobium montanum L. S. In the ravine of the Burn 

 of Sundaybanks. Also recorded from Unst, by Edmondston. 



* Callitriche polymorpha Lonnroth (in Obs. crit. pi suec. 

 1854, p. 19; Bot. Notiser, 1867) U. In the Mailand Burn, 

 apparently abundant. For the determination of this plant, new 

 to the British Flora, I am indebted to Dr. Hjalmar Nilsson, of 

 the Botanical Museum, Lund. So far as I can see from the 

 comparison of the dry fruits, by sections, &c, it comes between 

 stagnalis and hamulata ; the fruit is larger than that of the latter, 

 and pale, but without the wing which characterises the former I 

 and it differs from both in the remarkably long styles, which are 

 twice the length of the fruit, and are persistent. The distribution 

 of the species is unknown beyond Norway and Sweden, but it is 



