ON SOME SCOTTISH PLANTS OBSERVED JULY 1891 189 



Saxifraga nivalis, Z. — Cliffs of Stob Garbh (87); scarce. 



Epilobium obseurum, Schreb. — Near Bonar Bridge. 



Apium inundatum, Reichb. — Abundant at the west end of Loch Eye ; 

 it also occurs in ditches near Tain. 



jEgopodium Podagraria, Z. — Beside a brook by the road, about 

 three-quarters of a mile east of Nigg Station ; looking more 

 like a native than I remember to have seen it previously. 



Myrrhis Odorata, Scop. — Plentiful by the river at Kildary, and long 

 established there, if not truly wild. Evidently only an escape 

 at Tain and Bonar Bridge. 



Anthriseus vulgaris, Pers. — Coast at Balintore, apparently native. 



Galium ereetum, Huds. — Grassy roadside bank between Balintore 

 and Nigg Station. Mr. Bennett, who named it, tells me that it 

 was reported long since from near Bonar Bridge, but was 

 rejected by Watson as " insufficiently vouched." It looked as 

 much at home as G. Mollugo does by the highways in Surrey. 



Eupatorium cannabinum, Z. — Very sparingly, below the cliffs south 

 of Balintore. 



Anthemis arvensis, Z. — Near Tain; perhaps only a colonist. 



'Hieraeium pratense, TauscJi. — I noticed this species flowering on 

 the railway embankment at Dunphail (v.c. 95, Elgin), but not in 

 time to secure a specimen. As it is a native of Norway, I do 

 not understand upon what grounds Watson assumed it to be 

 an introduction in Scotland generally ; with regard to this 

 particular station I can, of course, come to no conclusion at 

 present. *H. holoserieeum, Backh. — A few specimens were 

 gathered on Stob Garbh (87). H. lingulatum, Backh. — Ben 

 Chaisteil ; Stob Garbh. H. irieum, Fr. — Ben Chaisteil. H. 

 strietum, Fr. — Carron river, near Bonar Bridge (106). H. 

 eommutatum, Becker {H. boreale, Fr., pro parte).- — Railway 

 between Loch Eye and Tain (106). I had not found it before 

 in Scotland, but have a specimen of Mr. Beeby's collecting 

 from near Aberdeen. 



*H. Langwellense, F. /. J /anbury. — Carron river, scarce : 

 gathered for //. anglicum (106). Mr. Bennett's record of that 

 species (p. 125) must be expunged. H. ecesio-murorum. Linde- 

 berg. — By the Lilian, above Crianlarich (88) : certainly not a 

 hybrid, I should say. H. Sommerfeltii, Lindeberg. — Meal] 

 Ghaordie (*88), in fair quantity; abundant on Ben Chaisteil 

 (*9$), and over one range of rocks on Stob Garbh (*87). 

 This Breadalbane form, which is exactly alike in all three 

 stations, differs from the type in having pure yellow (not 

 fuliginous) styles ; a similar variation is found in the case <>t 

 H. corymbosum. H. onosmoides, Fr. {teste Hanbury). — Plenti- 



