92 The Scottish Naturalist. 



46.— HOOKEBIA, Sm. 



151. H. lucens, Dill., Lin. — Banks of Divie and Findhorn, 



Slatesheugh, Cawdor. 



47.-FONTrNA.LIS, Dill. 



152. F antipyretica, Lin. — Common. Plentiful in fruit in Burn 



above Glenernie. 



153. F squamosa, Lin. — Findhorn, below Waterford. 



Manse of Forres. 



Notes on certain Scottish Plants.— The following are notes from the 

 Curator (Dr. Bosvvell Syme) of the Botanical Exchange Club's Report for 1871. 

 " Mr. Duthie has settled the point of there being two forms of Pyrus scandica, 

 Bab., (varr. fennica and pinnatifida) in Arran ; one of which has the leaves with 

 none of the segments separated ; the other with some of the leaves "it least 

 pinnate towards the base. The fruit of each form is sweet. The Arran plant 

 appears to be a sub-species, different from that of the south-west of England." 

 " Hieracium pedunculatum Wallroth. — Inverleith, Edinburgh. Mr. Sadler 

 sends a few specimens of this plant under the name of H. stolon iflorum. I have 

 not access to Waldstein & Kitaibel's work, but it is certainly not the H. stoloni- 

 Jlorum of Fries' "Epicrisis. " Whether it be a variety or sub-species (of H. 

 pilosella) remains to be proved by raising the plant from seed." In afoot-note, 

 Dr. Trimen remarks that the plant collected at Granton, in 1869, by Mr. 

 Sadler, certainly agrees with the figure of H. stoloniflorum in Waldst. & Kit. 

 " Hieracium dubiu?n, L. — Dr. Roy sends a specimen of a Hieracium which was 

 noticed several years ago by the Rev. James Keith, of Forres, on a piece of waste 

 ground near that town. I believe it to be the plant formerly called by Fries, H. 

 colli num., but which he now considers to be the true H dubuim of Linnaeus. 

 The periclines of the only Forres specimen I have seen are smaller, the pedun- 

 cles longer, and the leaves on the stolons less developed, than in the ordinary 

 form of the Scandinavian H dubium ; but Fries states that it is even more pro- 

 tean and polymorphous than the very variable H. prcealtum, which it replaces 

 in colder countries. I cannot, therefore, speak with certainty as to the name of 

 the Forres plant until I have seen a series of specimens." " Cuscuta Trifolii, 

 Bab.— Seggieden, Perth. Col. Drummond Hay states that this is the first sea- 

 son in which he has noticed the Dodder ; in this immediate neighbourhood.'* 

 Last year I observed it in a clover field between Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn." 

 " Chenopodium rubrum, L., var. pseudo-botryoides. — Kinghorn Loch, Fife. 

 In the utmost profusion on the banks of the loch, below the winter level of the 

 water. I have not met with the normal form of C. rubrum in Fife, except as a 

 weed in my own garden, into which it was no doubt introduced." " Rumex 

 Hydrolapathum, Huds, — Banks of the Tay at Elcho. H. M. Drummond Hay." 



* We saw it in abundance several years ago in a field two miles north of Perth.— Ed. 

 Se. Nat. 



