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Trifolium hybridum, L. — Well established by roadsides, etc., about 

 Tain and Nigg. T. agrarium (*io6) also occurs at both 

 places in clover fields — introduced with the crop. 



Oxytropis uralensis, DC. — Reported as extinct in East Ross in 

 "Journal of Botany " for 1889, p. 361. I found it in fair 

 quantity at one spot near Balintore, but withhold precise details 

 for obvious reasons. 



*Rubus fissus, Lindley. — Near Bonar Bridge and Tain (106). R. 

 plieatus, Wh. and JV. — Bonar Bridge, Tain, Nigg, Kildary. 

 In the first-named locality, besides the type, occurs a variation 

 which Dr. Focke calls "forma cordifolia." R. villieaulis, Koehl. 

 — The most abundant bramble of East Ross ; very unlike the 

 southern plant so named. R. mueronatus, Blox. — Common 

 in East Ross in a small and neat form. 'Typical . but rare, near 

 Killin (' ,c 88) ; also seen, but not collected, at Callander Station, 

 which I suppose to be in v.c. 86, Stirling. *R. radula, Weihe. 

 — Kildary (106). Two other brambles noticed here merit 

 attention, but were too young at the time of my visit for safe 

 determination. *R. eorylifolius, Sm. — Kildary; between Balin- 

 tore and Nigg ; between Loch Eye and Tain (106). Typical, or 

 nearly so. 



-'Geum rivale x urbanum (G. intermedium, Ehrh.) — By the stream 

 at Kildary, very scarce ; associated with urbanum. 



Rosa involuta, Sm. — Kildary (? ) ; a form with remarkably pinnate 

 sepals, which the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers agrees with me in 

 placing here ; other friends have referred it to mollis, tomentosa, 

 and involuta x mollis. Balintore; another puzzling plant, strongly 

 sweetbriar-scented, and very tall and straggling for this species, 

 but confidently named as above by Mr. Rogers. Var. Sabini, 

 ( Woods). — Near Tain ; a marked and handsome form, several 

 bushes growing together. R. rubiginosa L. — It is difficult to 

 see why H. C. Watson so decidedly rejected this as a native of 

 Scotland, since it is considered to be wild in southern Scandi- 

 navia. I cannot doubt its being indigenous in East Ross, having 

 met with it not only at Kildary, near houses, but also between 

 Fearn and Balintore, at least half a mile from human habitations. 

 Mr. C. Bailey has also recorded it, under more suspicious 

 circumstances, from Strath peffer ("Bot. Exch. Club. Report" for 

 1890). Tain was the only place where I observed it in a 

 garden. R. canina, Z., var. andegavensis, Bast. — Cliffs near 

 Balintore ; also by the Fillan, between Crianlarich and Tyndrum 

 (a glaucous form); var. vertieillacantha, Merat, Strathcarron, 

 near Bonar Bridge ; var. celerata, Baker, Tain ; var. Borreri, 

 Woods, — apparently common in East Ross ; not always easy 

 to separate from some forms of tomentosa when dried. 



