BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS 259 



A reference to the literature of variation in flowers shows records 

 of a number of deviations observed in the flowers of certain species. 

 Among them, more numerous sepals and petals have been recorded by 

 several botanists, but with no apparent tendency to any definiteness 

 of structure. In the course of investigations on variations of floral 

 structure I occasionally found deviations in flowers of Veronica, but 

 not very often on the whole. The most frequent was the more or 

 less complete division of the apparent posterior petal, so as to resemble 

 the type of the family. Occasional only in F. ChamcEdrys and 

 K serpyllifolia^ and rare in the most of the species, it occurs with 

 great frequency in V. Anagallis. The plant is very local in the 

 north-east of Scotland ; but wherever it occurs this variation may 

 be found, sometimes on almost every plant, and on some to nearly 

 20 per cent of all the flowers. The other parts of the flower 

 seldom vary from the normal structure of the genus. — James 

 W. H. Trail. 



Ag-popyron Donianum, F. B. White, on Ben Lawers. This rare 

 species (of which I have one of Don's original specimens) was 

 re-discovered by Mr. J. Melvill and Mr. F. J. Hanbury in 1878. 

 This year it has again been gathered by my friend Mr, F. F. Laidlaw 

 on the same mountain. — G. Claridge Druce. 



Festuea ovina, Z., var. alpina, Gren and Godi\ — In my paper in 

 the "Annals" (1908, p. 109), I recorded this from Inchnadamph. 

 I find, however, it is not that variety but a form of F. ovina which 

 simulates it. Set Rep. Bot.Exch. Club, 1907, p. 322. — G. Claridge 

 Druce. 



Scottish Roses. — Among some roses which the Rev. A. Ley 

 has examined in my herbarium he identifies the following : — 



Rosa oniissa, Desegl., var. resinosoides (Crepin), Beauly, 1884: 



Lawers, Alld-Perth. 

 R. mollissinia, Wild., var. psetido-nibiginosa (Lej.) [ = ^. omissa 

 Desegl., var. pseiido-rubiginosa (Lej.)], Lawers, Mid-Perth, 

 var. Andrzeiovii (Steven), Achnashellach, E. Ross, 

 var. suberecta (Woods) [ = suberecta. Ley], a very distinct rose. 

 Lawers, Mid-Perth ; Applecross, Kinlochewe ; Ullapool, 

 W. Ross ; Dingwall, East Ross ; Beauly, E. Inverness. 



R. villosa, L., var. recondita (Puget) \_ = R- mollis, Sm., var. 



reco7idita (Puget)], Speyside, Easterness ; Lawers, Mid-Perth ; 



Ullapool, W. Ross, 

 var. siibmollis (Ley) [ = i?. omissa Desegl, var. siibmollis (Ley)], 



Brodie, Nairn ; Kinlochewe, W. Ross. 

 R. pomifera, Herrm. By the Dee, Ballater. — G. Claridge Druce. 



