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With Messrs. Groves, I consider that restricted complanatum has 

 not yet been found in Britain. 



A note on specimens of Ranunculus acris, L., may be added. 

 I sent several forms collected on the Glen Spean Hills, and also 

 from the Cairngorms, to Dr. Wettstein, who kindly went over them 

 with Professor A. von Kerner. They were then sent to Herr Freyn. 

 They agree in naming them R. 7'u/gatus, Jord. ; which is placed 

 under R. Steveni, Andr., in the " Schedae ad Floram Exsiccatam 

 Austro - Hungaricam," 1888. Herr Freyn says that the three 

 montane forms " have very slight covering of hairs, and such forms 

 have not been noticed before. In habit they remind us of the 

 northern forms of R. acris. The rhizome is also very weak as 

 compared with that of typical vulgatus, no doubt in consequence 

 of the rude, damp climate." 



ON SOME SCOTTISH PLANTS OBSERVED 



JULY 1 891. 



By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



TlIE following notes give some results of a week passed in 

 East Ross, Tain being my headquarters, and of nearly a 

 week's botanising in the Tyndrum neighbourhood. Another 

 week was spent at Kill in ; but about this I shall say little, 

 as Messrs. E. F. and \Y. R. Linton, with whom all my 

 expeditions there were made, are publishing a short account 

 of the few novelties met with. 



Ben Chaisteil, near Tyndrum, has a bad botanical reputa- 

 tion, fully deserved, I should say, as far as Perthshire is 

 concerned ; the Argylc cliffs are, however, decidedly rich. A 

 furious thunderstorm, and my own indifferent climbing powers, 

 prevented my working them thoroughly ; but the number ol 

 interesting plants seen there induces me to recommend it 

 strongly to the attention of future visitors. Probably not 

 more than a third of the likely ground was searched by me. 



Plants marked with an asterisk are, to the best of un- 

 belief, new records for the various Watsonian vice-counties — 

 X;, West Perth; 88, Mid-Perth; 98, Argyle ; 106, East 

 Ross. 



I am greatly indebted for his generous assistance to Mr. 



