168 ABEBDEEN, FOEFAR, AND DUMFBIES PLANT-NOTES. 



appearance. The peduncles are short and scarcely lengthen in 

 fruiting ; some in the fruiting stage do not reach two inches ; 

 whereas in V. Cracca, type, they develop from four to six inches. The 

 hair on the upper part of the style is much the same, but rather 

 denser in the variety. The leaflets are rather broader in proportion 

 to length, and less acuminate, though equally mucronate. The 

 dwarf condition is not merely due to a subalpine condition ; a 

 specimen of type V. Cracca was gathered at Braemar ten days 

 later, growing much as usual, though at an elevation 700 ft. or 

 800 ft. higher than the Clova station. 



Spiraea salicifolia L. Glen Isla, Forfar. A well-established 

 escape in several parts of Scotland. 



Rubies Koehleri Weihe, var. pallidas, Bab. Dry copse, Moffat 

 Water (72). 



Dryas octopetala L. Very fine on the rocky ledges of Little 

 Oraigindal (92). 



Alchemilla vulgaris L., var. montana, Willd. Growing with the 

 type, in some quantity over a piece of upland pasture near 

 Braemar (92). 



Rosa coriifolia Fr., var. Lintoni Scheutz. Near Braemar (92), 

 whence first reported. 



Epilobium angustifolium L., var. brachycarpum Leight. Whatever 

 is settled regarding this dubious variety, there is no reason for 

 looking on it as an introduced plant. The Rev. E. S. Marshall has 

 already commented in these pages on our gathering it high up the 

 Unich Water (90), some miles away from habitation and cultiva- 

 tion. — *E. obscurum Schreb. Moffat Water (72). — E. obscurum x 

 palustre. Moffat (72). 



Galium Mollugo L. Growing in a hedge in the outskirts of 

 Braemar (92) ; under which circumstances we cannot add anything 

 to ' Topographical Botany,' where it is given for 92 " as a distrusted 

 native." — **&. sylvestre Poll. Bocky gorge of Grey Mare's Tail, 

 Moffat Water (72). Bocks of Little Craigindal (92). 

 *Crepis hieracioides Wald. & Kit. Moffat Water (72). 



Hieracium nigrescens Willd. On the rocky precipice of the 

 Dhuloch (92) were growing three differing forms, all of which go 

 under what we are accustomed to regard as H. nigrescens, and every 

 one of them differing from the monocephalous form gathered on 

 Ben Hope, Sutherland, in 1886. We have first to learn what true 

 H. nigrescens Willd. is. Then some of these distinguishable forms 

 will be found worthy at least of varietal names. — H. lasiophyllum 

 Koch., Bradoonie, Clova (90). There is also in this district a 

 pallidum form, which is, perhaps, H. crinigerum Fries, which runs 

 near H. lasiophyllum, and has at times been confused with it. — *H. 

 argenteum Fries. Grey Mare's Tail, Moffat Water (72). Bather 

 scarce. — H. aggregation Backh. Glen Fiagh (90) ; a scarce plant 

 in Forfar.---//. Farreme F. J. Hanb. Glen Shee (89). We did 

 not recognize this plant ; it was detected among our unnamed 

 Hawkweeds by Mr. F. J. Hanbury. It shows no variation from the 

 Sutherland plant, and is an interesting extension southwards of a 

 very local plant hitherto only known on the north coast of 



