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(1835), 201, he gives *' Aberdeenshire, Dr. Graham," adding 

 in the fifth ed. ( i 842), 130," Ben-na-Bord." This is probably 

 M'Nab's habitat. This seems to be the first separate Scotch 

 record under the name, but still mixed with 6". decipiens. 



Babington in all the editions of the Manual, 1843 ^^ 

 1904, has this mixture, adding in his first "Westmoreland, 

 Dickson ! " So it would seem that the first actual record 

 for the true plant is by Watson (" Cyb. Brit." i. 1847, 417), 

 made on the strength of Dr. M. Barry's Ben Avon examples ; 

 authenticated by Dr. B. Syme in " Eng. Bot." 3rd ed. iv. 

 (1865), p. 79, where the plant is well described. 



SOME REMARKS ON EUPHRASIA AND 



RHINANTHUS 



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



Mr. Druce and Mr. Beeby call attention (pp. 10 1-2, 106) 

 to Dr. Ostenfeld's having combined Euphrasia scottica (Prof. 

 Wettstein so spelt it, and Mr. Townsend arbitrarily altered 

 the spelling), of which E. paludosa, Towns, (non Br.), is a 

 synonym, and E. foulaensis wnih. E. iniuima. As I know E. 

 scottica and E. foulaensis pretty well, and am not at all dis- 

 posed to consider them as belonging to one segregate, I 

 venture to briefly give some reasons for keeping them apart 

 Well-developed specimens, according to my experience, are 

 always quite readily separable at a glance ; stunted plants 

 may be more difficult. Unfortunately, I have but a very 

 slight acquaintance with E. miniina^ though I collected the 

 typical yellow-flowered form of the Swiss Alps many years 

 ago. But E. scottica normally occurs in "duet ground, especi- 

 ally on heaths, and is semi-parasitic on Cariccs ; whereas E. 

 niininia chooses Grasses for its host-plants, and does not 

 appear to show any special fondness for boggy places. 

 Differences of colour, texture, etc., which strike the eye at 

 once in living specimens, disappear when they are dried ; and 

 I believe that it is safer to follow Wettstein and Townsend 

 in regarding E. scottica as distinct. 



With respect to E, foulaensis I have no doubt. In Scot- 



