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has written " (Tnaphaimm In/perboreum.'' This has an historical 

 interest, as either this particular specimen or one from the same 

 gathering was sent by Winch in 1819 to De Candolle for exami- 

 nation, and is the type for the variety described in the Prodro>nus. 



On the continent of Europe var. [3 is more widely distributed 

 than is usually indicated in floras; and, as the following specimens 

 cited show, it occurs in Switzerland, Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria, 

 Montenegro, and Turkey, also in Denmark, and the island of 

 Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, as well as in the Daghestan territory 

 of the province of Cis-Caucasia. 



Exsicc. Alpe di Fliihe, near Zermatt (Bobert Brown, 1827) ; 

 Ganes, on Mt. Magura, Transsylvania {Czecz, 1874) ; Transsylvania 

 (Sc/mr, 1870, no. 2016 b, forma purpurea elegantissima) ; a specimen 

 labelled '' GnaplwJium, australe'' {AdiDnoi^ic exs. Serbicae, 1897); 

 Mt. Kopaonik (Friedrichsthal) ; Mt. Peristeri [Grisebach] ; Mt. 

 Chortiasch (Friedrichsthal) ; Mt. Despoto-dagh, in Turkey, near 

 Karlova {Friwa/dzky) ; Montenegro {Baldacci, It. Albanicum, vi. 

 no. 221, 1898); Mt. Hodja Balkan, in Bulgaria (ex herb. Hooker), 

 labelled " var. austraUs " ; a specimen from Daghestan, on the west 

 bank of the Caspian Sea [Becker, 1877). There is also one of 

 J. Mackay's original specimens from Dawson Turner's herbarium, 

 labelled '' (j-naphaliiim new, Isle of Skye " : and another labelled 

 "Isle of Sky, Dr. Smith, 1806." 



The following specimens from N. Asia should also be referred 

 to var. /? : — Specimens from Guriel, in Siberia (Szowitz), and from 

 Alach-Jun and Krest-Judomiskoi (l'i(rczanmow,18d5, '^ Gnaphalium 

 boreaJe''), from Irkutzk, and Siberia Altaica (1867) ; also Japanese 

 specimens from Abashiri, in the island of Yezo (PI. du Japon, 

 1890, no. 5456, Faurie). 



In the British Herbarium of the Herb. Mus. Brit, there is a 

 single sheet of var. hijperborea with six specimens attached. One 

 from E. Forster's herbarium is not at all characteristic, as the upper 

 surface of the leaves is almost glabrous. Two are garden specimens 

 raised from a plant collected in the Isle of Skye (without date). 

 Of the other three specimens, the most characteristic is one from 

 Sowerby's herbarium, with a label attached in the handwriting of 

 G. Don the elder, "I call this GnaphaUum hyperboreiun ; it was 

 found by Mr. J. Mackay, Edinburgh, in the Isle of Skye. May 

 this not be the variety mentioned by Lightfoot as being m Dr. 

 Ross's collection?" What the date of this determination may be 

 is uncertain; but the name, as stated above, was taken up (subse- 

 quently) by James Donn in 1812. On turning to Lightfoot's 

 Fl. Scotlca, ii. app. p. 1109 (1777), we find, "a variety of this, a 

 foot high, was found near New Posso. Mr, Yalden." Posso Craigs 

 is a hill in Peeblesshire. 



Var. y congesta. — This variety was founded on Asso's specimens, 

 which he referred to GnaphaUum alpinuni. Boissier's specimens, 

 which agree with the type, were collected on the Sierra Nevada, in 

 the south of Spain, at a height of 2550 metres, in ice-crevices, 

 above Corral de Veleta, Among the Scottish specimens in Herb. 



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