40 NOTES ON SCOTCH PLANTS. 



prevented the roses from being carefully worked. This year the 

 visit was equally mis-tirned, for I reached Scotland at the end of six 

 weeks' drought, which had dried up the vegetation in a terrible 

 manner, and which the continued rainfall I experienced did little to 

 benefit. I spent two hours in Glen A'an, but got soaked shortly 

 after reaching the rocks. There is still a good deal of work to be 

 done on the rocks around its head and on the southern side. 



Such of the following plants as are believed to be new records 

 are marked * ; personal vouchers for which authority is lacking in 

 Top. Bot. are marked f. In a few cases I have put in some 

 altitudinal records where these extend the range from those given in 

 the ' Student's Flora.' It is quite probable that these have been 

 already noted by other observers. I am indebted to Messrs. Arthur 

 Bennett, F. J. Hanbury, F. Townsend, M.P., and Eev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers for kind assistance. 



The variety of Ranunculus acris L., called by Wahlenberg pumilus 

 (see Journ. Bot., 1889, 204), I have had in cultivation a year; it 

 still retains its characters. I saw a plant or two in Glen A'an, at 

 nearly 3000 ft. *Banff, 94. 



Erophila inflata Hook. f. occurred by the Loch on Lawers. It 

 scarcely seems worthy of specific designation ; an inflated fruited 

 form of E. pracox, which we have in Oxfordshire, closely 

 approaches it. 



Draha incana L., as the var. contorta (Ehrh.), was plentiful on 

 the cliffs of Meal Garbh, 88, and also sparingly in *West Boss, and 

 on sand-hills in East Boss. 



Arabis petraa Lamk. The glabrous cut-leaved variety from the 

 Cairngorms retains its characters under cultivation, although it has 

 narrowly escaped destruction from slugs, which are passionately 

 fond of it, while they utterly neglect the Ben Laoigh plant, which 

 also remains unaltered under cultivation. I saw the glabrous form 

 in *Glen A'an, Banff. 



Viola lutea Huds., var. ammia (Symons). Perhaps under this 

 should be placed an extremely handsome form which occurred on 

 the cliffs of Meal Garbh, notwithstanding its tricolor aspect. It is 

 more correctly the var. grandiflora of Gren. et Godr. vol. i., p. 184; 

 see also Vill. Cat. Strasb., which, I believe, was a yellow-flowered 

 form. 



*Fwnaria densifiora DC. On rubbish-heaps, Inverness, 96. — 

 *F. capreolata L. West Boss, 105. 



*Dianthus deltoides L. Linlithgow ; v. sp. in Hort. Ox. Forfar, 

 90 ; v. sp. in Hort. Ox. 



Lychnis diuma Sibth. Occurred with white flowers on Ben Lawers. 



Arenaria sedoides Schultz. Ascends to at least 3600 ft. on 

 Lawers, 88, and descends to 1800 ft. on Ben Slioch. fWest Boss, 

 forma apetala, 105. 



\Cerastium tetrandrum Curtis. Nairn, 96. — *0. alpimim L. Not the 

 lanatum of Lamarck, but that pubescent lighter green plant which 

 is, I believe, Bentham's var. piloso°pubescens. Loch A'an, 94. 



Stellaria media Cyr., var. *major Koch. Kinlochewe, 105. 



