258 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Midlaw Burn : Pi)ii::;uicula vulgaris^ L., var. bicolor, Nordstedt, Black's 

 Hope, Midlaw Burn, etc. ; Orchis ericetorum^ Linton, common ; 

 Habenaria conopsea x Orchis macnlata^ one specimen was found, 

 with the parents, in a bog near Capelgill ; Carex (Ederi, Retz., var. 

 cedocarpa^ And., common, " the only form of aggregate C. flava^ L., 

 which we observed"; Glyceria fiuitans^ Br., var. friticea, Fr., 

 apparently frequent in marshy land, G. dec/i?iata, Breb., Frenchland 

 Burn, Kinnelhead; Festuca rubra., L., wslX. grand i/lora, Hackel, Black's 

 Hope, Beeftub ; var. ba7'bafa, Hackel, Corriefron, etc. ; var. fallax, 

 Hackel, shaded wall tops ; Eqiiisetuni sylvaticii??t, L., var. capillarc 

 (Hoffm.), Raehills Glen. 



" Saxifraga hypnoides, L., — the plant of Black's Hope, Midlaw 

 Burn, Corriefron, and Craigmichen is this species, often somewhat 

 luxuriant ; we could see no 6". sponhemica., and believe it was recorded 

 in error." " We saw nothing oi Hieracium nigrescens, callistophyllu7n., 

 Jangweilense, nitidiim, ciliafuni, or aiigiistatum^ which have been 

 reported." 



Radieula palustris, Moench {Nasturtium palustre^ DC.) in 

 Kincardineshire. — About the middle of ^August I found a vigorous 

 plant by the Luther Water in the parish of Laurencekirk. It has not 

 previously been recorded from this county (91), though known 

 from Forfarshire (90) and doubtfully native near Aberdeen (92). — 

 James W. H. Trail. 



Goodyera repens, Brow?i. — No doubt, as Prof. Trail remarks, 

 this plant has its usual habitat in woods of conifers, but Mr. Barclay 

 of Perth in a recent letter writes me that he found " two or 

 three plants of it, however, on a moor close by the sea-side about 

 two miles west of Portsoy, near a place called Redhythe Point. 

 That moor showed no traces of ever having been planted. Probably 

 there were more on the moor, but I did not examine through want 

 of time. At the time I thought it strange to find the plant in such 

 a place." This is in Banffshire. — A. Bennett. 



Flopal Variation in the Genus Veronica. — The usual structure 

 of the flowers in the Speedwells is familiar, and is remarkably 

 constant, consisting of 4 almost free sepals, 4 petals united in a 

 short tube (the posterior being larger and the anterior smaller 

 than the other two), two stamens attached to the tube of the petals 

 between the posterior and lateral petals, and two united carpels. 

 This structure does not closely resemble that of the other genera 

 associated with Veronica in the Figwort family. From the usual 

 type in the family it differs in the non-development of the posterior 

 sepal, the very close union of the two posterior (upper-lip) petals to 

 form one plate (which looks like a single petal, only slightly larger 

 than one of the lateral petals), and the reduction of the stamens 

 to two. 



