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E. nemorosa H. Mart. U. Burrafirth; Saxa Vord Hill; 

 about the Loch of Cliff. Northmavin, moors about OUaberry. Mr. 

 Townsend places these under his Nemorosa?, of which group E. 

 nemorosa is the type. Probably this is the common form of the- 

 islands. A third form may be present, but the material was too 

 scanty. Some of the plants differ from any Mr. Townsend has 

 seen elsewhere in Britain, " and seem to approach a form from 

 Greenland and Iceland." 



Stachys ambigua Smith. S. Near Scalloway. The late 

 Rev. W. W. Newbould told me some years ago that the Scandin- 

 avian form of this plant differed from our ordinary form in more 

 nearly resembling sylvatica. This is also the case with the Shet- 

 land plant ; which, as Mr. Bennett observes, is the same as that 

 from Orkney, whence I have specimens collected by the Rev. W. 

 R. Linton. I did not observe sylvatica, and according to Dr. 

 Boswell it is much rarer than ambigua in Orkney. 



Armeria maritima Very small forms are plentiful on the 

 sea-cliffs of Unst, but I looked in vain for anything with the 

 glabrous scape which marks the true A. sibirica Turcz. 



Plantago maritima L. var. hirsuta Syme. Referring to 

 the observations of Mr. Charles Bailey and the Rev. E. F. Linton 

 on this plant (" Bob Ex. Club Report" 1886 ; " Scot. Nat." 1887, 

 p. 129), it certainly does differ considerably, at first sight, from the 

 Rev. W. R. Linton's Orkney specimens. The leaves in both are 

 variable in breadth ; and this is especially the case in the Shetland 

 plant, in which they average narrower than in the Orkney one. 

 The Shetland plant also produces, among the leaf-bases, an un- 

 usually copious supply of that white "wool" or "silk," which is 

 present, in greater or lesser quantity, in every specimen of a Plantain 

 that I have yet seen from either Orkney or Shetland. But it is 

 not wanting in Mr. Linton's Orkney plant, though sparingly pro- 

 duced in it. When the wool is abundant, and the plant is hirsute, 

 the hairs often carry up portions to the upper parts of the leaves 

 during their growth, and it is this, chiefly, which gives the Shet- 

 land form its different appearance. The hirsute covering of the 

 leaves themselves is identical in both plants, and consists of a 

 thick growth of white, somewhat rigid, jointed hairs. I have not 

 been able to find a type specimen of Syme's variety; but I should 

 not feel disposed, at present, to separate the Orkney and Shetland 

 plants, further than as forms of the same variety. 



