23S AXXALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



•* Eng. Bot." i. 167, Syme refers to the continental ciliata 

 being, according to Godet, A. araiata, " Shuttleworth " ; but 

 Mr. N. E. Brown must have had this before him, when he 

 said var. /lirsuta, Koch, must replace hispida, Syme. The 

 Rev. E. F. Linton "Bot, Exch. Rep." 1899, is my authority 

 for the \\2iVi\^ propinqua (Jord.) for Mr. Marshall's plant from 

 Uist, which he says M. Rouy named A. Retziana, var. hispida. 

 Nyman puts Retziana as a sub-species of hirsuta^ occurring 

 in Norway, Sweden, etc. 



Is the var. hispida, Syme, Irish only, as given in " Lond. 

 Cat." ? 



EropJiila inflata is cited as of Watson in Hooker's 

 " Students' Flora," ed. 3, p. 35, 1884 ; but it is there as a sub- 

 species only. 



Bentham and Hooker are followed in separating CoJiringia 

 from E^ysimiLin in my list. Nyman does the same in the 

 " Conspectus." 



As Mr. White points out Jordan wrote Thlaspi occitanicum. 

 I follow Syme in giving the three varieties which he, how- 

 ever, treated as sub-species. The petals of the Derbyshire 

 virejis, he says, differ from those of authenticated specimens 

 as named by M. Jordan.^ 



V. odorata, var. iinberbis, Leighton, is a slight, though 

 permanent, variety in which a tuft of hairs situate at the 

 inner base of the lateral petals is wanting. It was named 

 from the white-flowered plant by Leighton, and is more 

 frequently to be found of that colour ; but the blue-flowered 

 plant also exhibits the same hairless variation. Leighton 

 first named it as a species, and subsequently as a variety.^ 



Under the Violets, as elsewhere, I have tried to omit 

 mere colour forms. There is considerable divergence in the 

 two lists in treating the Melanium group. Even the more 

 matured views of Dr. Drabble are scarcely, I expect, final ; 

 and I prefer to keep the plants under one or other of two 

 super species. I would add to my List var. Provostii, Bor., 

 and var. vivariensis (Jord.) under V. tricolor. 



Frankenia Icevis, L. The comital distribution is twelve. 



1 Babington in introducing this plant to our flora misspelt it occitan7ini. 



2 Dr. Stokes in " With. Nat. Arr." ii. 955 (1787) first describes this variety, 

 but he did not name it. 



