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remarking at the time that I thought it must be a tomentosa form. 

 In reply he wrote, " You are perfectly right in considering these 

 specimens as belonging specifically to Li. tomentosa. Bcheutz was 

 mistaken in placing this same variety, gathered by Mr. Linton in 

 Koss-shire, to R. moilis Urn., var. (jlabrata Fries." I thinlc that any 

 one having had the opportunity of watching this plant in different 

 stages of growth in its native locality could hardly arrive at any 

 other conclusion. The prickles are generally straighter than in 

 many forms of R. tomentosa, but it has quite tlie habit of that plant 

 as it occurs on this coast. In poor soil the branches are only 

 slightly arching, as is similarly the case with some forms of il 

 tomentosa. In good soil it is an arching bush, sometimes highly so, 

 and quite as much as in other forms of that plant. Tne sepals also 

 soon disarticulate, as in R. tomentosa, and are not truly permanent, 

 as in R. mollis. As a consequence of the above determination by 

 Prof. Crepin, Rosa mollis Sm., var. glabrata Fries, cannot yet be 

 considered as having been found in Britain. — Symers M. Macvicar. 

 New Westerness Plants. — In the course of some time spent in 

 June and July of this year in the B.W. corner of Inverness-shire 

 (v.-c. 97), I found the following plants, which Mr. Arthur Bennett 

 tells me are new records for Westerness (including Carex fusca, new 

 to Great Britain). I have to thank the Rev. W. Moyle Kogers for 

 kindly naming brambles and roses, and my friend Mr. Bennett for 

 much time and trouble kindly bestowed on my somewhat bulky 

 parcels of Scottish plants ; he has verified all of the new records 

 where the plant was at all doubtful : — Tkalictrum dunense Dum., 

 Culule mantima iScop., ^Lychnis alba Mill, (near cottages, doubtfully 

 native), ^ayma upetala L., Medicayo lupulina L., Vicia sijlvatica L., 

 Rubus vilUcaulis b. Selmeri (Lindeb.), Rosa riibiginosa L. (large- 

 leaved form), Galium ulujinosum L., Lactuca muralis Fresen., Cam- 

 panula latij'olia L., Samolus Valerandi L., titachys arcensis L., 

 Lamium intermedium Fr., Atriplex laciniata L., iSalsola Kali L., 

 Potamogeton alpinus Balb., Carex Boenninyhansiana Weihe, C. fusca 

 All., C. lavigata Sm., Deschampsia discolor R. & S., Festuca elatior 

 L., Ayropyron caninam Beauv., A. junceum Beauv. — W. F. Miller. 



Rubus cardiophyllus Lefv. & Muell. — British batologists will 

 learn with interest that Messrs. O. Gelert and K. Friderichsen have 

 at last enabled us to give a definite name to our prevailing British 

 form of R. rhamnifoUus, which they find also in Slesvig and in the 

 island of Fionia. Some months ago they wrote to me that they 

 were satisfied of its identity with the French plant R. cardiop/iyllus 

 Lefv. & Muell., which was described by Mueller in Pollichia in 

 1859, and again by Grenevier under the same name in his Mono- 

 graph. I now have their specimens before me, together with a 

 French one collected by M. Letendre, and am convinced that there 

 is no room for doubt on the point. As we certainly have several 

 forms of this species in Britain, it seems best to retain the name 

 rhamnifoUus sp. coll. for the ayyreyate. — W. Moyle Rogers. 



MoLiNiA cerulea var. obtusa. — About the middle of July Mr. 

 W. de H. Scott sent to the Natural History Museum, South 



