326 THE BOTANICAL IIJSTORY OF ANGUS. 



Astragalus (jlycyphyllus I observed on the coast betwixt Montrose 

 and Arbroath. A species of this genus which Hudson, and after him 

 Mr. Lightfoot, have taken for the A. arennrius, of Linnajus, grows plenti- 

 fully along the whole coast. It is now found to be widely different from that 

 plant, but what its proper name should be seems not yet fully determined. 

 Retzins, in his ' Observaliones Botanicfe,' remarks that it is very nearly 

 allied to the Adragalm danicns, but yet seems different. In the second 

 edition of ' Withering's Botanical Arrangement,' this name is given it, 

 but with some impropriety, as Uetzius's plant is annual, while the plant 

 found in this country is perennial. In the ' Hortus Kewensis' it has been 

 called Jstrar/aliis hypoglottis, but it does by no means altogether corre- 

 spond with the specific character which Linn?eus has given to that species. 

 Considering this diversity of opinion, I should be led to imagine that 

 this plant is as yet undescribed, or if at all described, it is certainly but 

 id characterized, or distinguished from those to which it is most nearly 

 allied. For it is certain that it very well expresses the specific characters 

 of several species of Astragalus. 



Trifollum medium grows by the sides of hedges in several parts of Angus. 

 Concerning this plant likeways there has been a considerable diversity of 

 opinion. In the tirst edition of the ' Flora Anglica' it is called the Trifo- 

 Uum medium, the name which it should still retain. In the second edition 

 of the same work, and in the ' Flora Scotica' it has, however, been named 

 Trifolium alpestre. Jacquin, in his ' Flora Austriaca,' has made it a new 

 species, giving it the name of Trifoliam Jlexnosum, which is adopted in the 

 second edition of ' Withering's Botanical Arrangement.' But in a paper 

 wrote by Afzelius, and published in the " Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society," it is proved that the plant in question is nothing else than the 

 Trifolium medium of Linnaeus. 



Ilyuseris rdiuin/a grows in several cornfields about Forfar. It was in- 

 serted in the ' Flora Scotica' on Sibbald's authority, but no place of growth 

 mentioned. 



I observed likeways a variety of the Carduus Marianus, with leaves 

 altogether green, about a mile from Dundee. 



Solidago cambrica was observed in the western parts of Angus. Ac- 

 cording to Lightfoot, it is only a variety of Virga-aurea, produced bv the 

 particular soil in which it grows. But since that period cultivation has 

 ascertained them specifically distinct. 



Doronicum. Fardalianches grows in shady ground several miles west 

 from Montrose. This plant has never yet been found in England, but 

 was observed in Scotland by Mr. Lightfoot in some parts of Annandale; 

 as he always found it near buildings, however, he concludes that it has 

 probably escaped from gardens. But in the place which I now mention 

 this could not possibly have happened ; and I likeways met with it in 

 Perthshire, in a situation which confirms me in this opinion ; and besides, 

 it may be remarked, that it is a plant very rarely, if ever, to be found in 

 gardens, at least in this age. I would, therefore, upon the whole, suppose 

 this plant to be an original native of this country ; though it may be 

 found in situations which may lead to the opinion of its having escaped 

 from gardens. 



Antliemis tinctoria was a few years ago observed in some cornfields 

 al)0ut Forfar, but cannot now be found. It is not at all mentioned by 

 Lightfoot, and is very scarce in iLngland, nor is it in all probability an 



