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Folia usque ad 2-5 cm. long., et 2-2 cm. lat., glandulis minimis 

 abundanter instructa ; petioli fere usque ad 2-0 cm. long., minute 

 pubescentes. Paniculus 30-0 cm. long., hnjus ramuli modici 3*0- 

 4-0 cm. long. Pedicelli 0-15 cm. long. Calyx florescens in toto 

 0-3 cm. long. Calyx fructescens 0-5-0'6 cm. long., 0*2 cm. lat., 

 nervis parum eminentibus percursus. Coroll?e tubi pars cylindrica 

 0-4 cm. long., 0-07 cm. lat.; pars amplificata vix 0-5 cm. long., 

 sub limbo 0-4 cm. lat. ; labium posticum rotundatum, 0*3 cm. lat. ; 

 labium anticum 0*7 cm. long. Filamentorum vagina 0-2 cm long. ; 

 filamenta libera 0-45 cm. long.; antherae 0-08 cm. diam. Nuculae 

 ovoidese, polit?e, 0-1 cm. lat. 



Differs from N. Wehdtschii Briquet, the only species hitherto, 

 in leaf, densely paniculate inflorescence, &c. The equahty in size 

 of the anticous calyx lobe to its fellows is a small character in 

 respect of which the generic diagnosis requires shght modification ; 

 the lobe is, however, concave, and in this it agrees with N. 

 Welu'itschii. 



Explanation of Plate 424. 

 The drawings of the plants natural size ; the analyses more or less magnified. 

 A. Leurocline Utho>^permoides. 1. Corolla opened out. 2. Calyx opened 

 to show the small posticous lobe, bilobed stigma, &c. 3. View of fruit, the 

 nutlets slightly disparted to show the flat gynobase. B. Omania arahica. 

 4. A bud showing the upper lip ai) inside in cTstivation. 5. Calyx opened to 

 show its zygoniorphic character. 6. Corolla cut open. 7. Ovary in transverse 

 section. 



PLANTS OF NOKTH SCOTLAND, 1900. 



By Kev. E. S. Mabshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



I SPENT nearly three months with my family in the far north of 

 Britain last summer, making my head-quarters at Tongue, and 

 reaching points as far distant as Durness westward and Wick east- 

 ward. On July 10th my wife and 1 met our old friend Mr. W. A. 

 Shoolbred in Thurso for an expedition to Ben Griam More, near 

 Forsinard, which had been justly recommended to us by Mr. W. 

 Lindsay as a good hill for its comparatively small height ; we then 

 crossed to Orkney for five days' collecting, and our companion 

 returned with us for a few excursions near Tongue. On August 14th 

 we made a partial ascent of Ben Wyvis with Mr. F. C. Crawford, of 

 Edinburgh, having only time to hastily explore its smaller south- 

 eastern corrie. The vice-counties visited are — 106 East Ross, 

 107 East Sutherland, 108 West Sutherland, 109 Caithness, and 

 111 Orkney. As usual, I am greatly indebted to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett for help in working out critical forms ; also to Messrs. 

 H. & J. Groves, Hanbury {Hiemcium), Kiikenthal (Carex), Linton 

 and Townsend {EupJuasia). The sign ■■'■ denotes an unpublished 

 vice-comital record ; f an apparently new British plant. 



TJtalictnim alpinum L. 107/''- Ben Griam More. 108. Remark- 

 ably plentiful along the coast about Tongue, descending almost to 

 sea-level. 



