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Scabiosa succisa. 



Dry pastures, common. 

 Solidago Virgaurea. 



Rocky banks, common: and by the sea. Freswick Head. ! 



Bellis perennis. 



Abundant. The average specimens growing on boulder-clay 

 pastures are much larger and finer than any that I have 

 seen in other parts of Scotland. J. Grant. 



Aster Tripolium. 



Muddy and marshy ground by the sea, plentiful. Near Wick. 

 C. W. Peach. 



Antennaria dioica. 



Heathy pastures, local. 



G-naphalium uliginosum. 



Damp fields and roadsides. 



GK sylvaticum. 



Pasture ground. 



Achillea Millefolium. 



Abundant. 

 A. Ptarmica. 



Waste places. 



Anthemis arvensis. 



Cultivated ground. The Glebe. Wick. ! 



Chrysanthemum segetum. 



Fields, abundant. Bed of Thurso River. F J. Banbury. ! 



0. Leucanthemum. 



Thurso River !, Sibster, and occasionally by roadsides. Rather 

 local in the eastern parts of the county. 



tC Farthenium. 



Near houses. 



Matricaria inodora. 



A common weed everywhere. 



var. salina. 



Sea cliffs and beaches ; sandhills at Keiss ; cliffs west of Reay. 

 F J. Hanbury. ! Mr. Beeby remarks on a specimen from 

 the sandhills at Dunnet, ''stilihh. and phceocephala pass into 

 each other, and the Caithness form is probably intermedi- 

 ate." Journal of Botany. 



Artemisia vulgaris. 



Ditch banks, and edges of fields. 



