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nently; though I have found some intermediates which appear to 

 be " mongrels." Last year I was able to study the wild plant 

 afresh, and satisfied myself that it was a good variety, if not a 

 subspecies. The root-leaves are rather numerous, quite entire, 

 occasionally a foot long (including the stalk i in luxuriant specimens, 

 oblanceolate, narrowed into a slender petiole not much shorter than 

 the blade. Lower and upper stem-leaves entire, the middle ones 

 often with one or two pairs of stipuliform pinn?e at their base, 

 entire or obscurely crenate-dentate. Mr. James Groves has kindly 

 pointed out that there is a var. iitte(jrifoliaYi\\iot, Novce Form. Querc. 

 (1880) S. A. 40, quoted in Beck's Flora of Lower Austria as having 

 " all the leaves undivided." This may perhaps be the same thing; 

 but a Tyrolese specimen with undivided leaves in Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 differs in habit from the Sutherlandshire plant; and Herr Freyn's 

 inability to recognize this induces me to name it provisionally as 

 var. succiso' folia, from the close resemblance of its leaves to those 

 of a very luxuriant IScahlosa Siiccisa which occurs on the cliffs at 

 Coalbackie. 



Hieraciioii (jlobosum Backh. 106. Ben Wyvis. — H. Backhousei 

 F. J. Hanb. 106.^'= Ben Wyvis.—//. angHcum. Fr. 111. Frequent 

 along the South Burn, Hoy. — H. argentcum Fr. var. scptentrionale 

 F. J. Hanb. 108. Abundant on the coast about Scullomie and 

 Skerray ; inland by the Vagastie Burn, Altnaharra. A single 

 specimen of the type was found at Coalbackie. — H. nitidiun Backh. 

 107.''' East side of Ben Griam More at 1500 ft. 108. Scarce on 

 the northern cliff's of Ben Hope. — //. Som)nerJ'eltii Lindeb. 108. 

 Near sea-level on cliffs below Castell Varrich, Kyle of Tongue. — 

 //. stenolepia Lindeb. 108. Low dolomite cliffs at Hielam. — 

 //. muronim. L. var. micradadluui Dalilst. 108. Eocks near Farr 

 Church, Betty Hill. — Var. ciliatwn Almq. 108. Eastern base of 

 Ben Loyal ; also on the north-western cliffs of Ben Hope. — 

 //. orarium Lindeb. 108. Sandy cliff', Coalbackie ; only one plant 

 seen. — Var./?</t'?o^?, F. J. Hanb. 109. Thurso Eiver. 111. On the 

 cliff's of Waulkmill Bay occurs a form which I cannot separate from 

 the foregoing, of which it has the orange -yellow flowers, dark styles, 

 and pilose-tipped ligules. Mr. Hanbury objects that the leaves are 

 too entire, and the involucral clothing not shaggy enough ; but the 

 specimens varied a good deal in these respects. It closely resembles 

 the Melness sandhill hawkweed which Messrs. Linton have recently 

 issued as var. erythrceiim, but which I also incline to consider as only 

 a state of y^v.fiilvum, due to situation; last summer, which was cold 

 and wet, this was very like the Thurso plant. — //. duriceps F. J. 

 Hanb. var. cravoniense F. J. Hanb. 103.'' Ardskinid Point, Tongue 

 Bay, very rare ; exactly matching authentic Yorkshire specimens. — 

 H. angastatum Lindeb. 108. Bather plentiful on the north-western 

 cliffs of Ben Hope. — //. auratum Fr. 111. By a streamlet between 

 Kirbister and Waulkmill Bay. — //. uuibellatuin. L. var. paucijiorum 

 Hartm. 108. Grassy cliff's, Skerray ; locally abundant. 



Taraxacum palustye DC. var. iidum (Jord.i. 108. Tongue, abun- 

 dant. This is, I suspect, the same thing as 1\ ojjicinale var. alpinum 

 Koch, lately recorded by Mr. Druce from Loclmagar, &c. ; at least. 



