NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF MID-PERTH 165 



side of Meall Garbh ; very local on the north side of Creag Mohr. 

 It occasionally descends to about 2600 ft., and on Ben Lawers 

 reaches 3950 ft.; but the main range is between 3000 and 3500 ft. 

 The long-podded form is scarce on these mountains ; a very few 

 pink-flowered plants were observed. In cultivation I find it to be 

 a rather short-lived perennial ; but I suspect that it is usually 

 biennial, in the wild state. The dense cushions of early bloom 

 are very striking and pretty. 



Arenaria rubella Hook. A specimen from the west side of 

 Ben Lawers measures five inches across. 



A. leptoclados Guss. var. viscichda Eouy & Fouc. Dr. Moss 

 detected this on a roadside wall near Coshieville. 



Hypericum maculatum Crantz [duhium Leers). What appears 

 to be a form of this, very different from our ordinary EngHsh one, 

 being of low growth, with much paler flowers, was found in good 

 quantity by the roadside between Fearnan and Lawers, and 

 sparingly near Bridge of Lyon, Fortingal. 



Vicia sylvat'ica L. Very fine by the Allt Odhar, Fortingal, and 

 by the x\llt Coire Pheiginn, at 700 ft. ; not observed elsewhere. 



Agrimonia Eupatoria L. We collected (for A. odorata Mill.) 

 flowering examples of a luxuriant Agrimony, fairly plentiful among 

 bushes and rocks on the cliffs above Fortingal, from 500 to 1100 ft., 

 with large, glandular leaves ; but Mr. Arthur Bennett suggests 

 A. Eupatoria var. '•'sepnim Brebisson, Fl. Norm. 110 (1869), which 

 may be the same as var. umbrosa Coss. & Germ., Fl. Paris. 182 

 (1845). 



Galium erectum Huds. One fine plant on limestone near 

 Garth Castle; Mr. Haggart informed me that he had seen it 

 more plentifully, eastwards. The habit is diffuse; and Mr. 

 Bennett refers it to var. aristatum Bab. Man. ed. 3, 153 (1851), 

 English Botany, t. 2784 (non G. aristatum L.). 



Antennaria dioica Gaertn. Plants agreeing with the descrip- 

 tion of var. piedicellata B. White, Scottish Naturalist, 1886, p. 323, 

 were gathered on a hillock north-east of Garth Castle. 



Crepis mollis Aschers. (succiscefolia Tausch). Fine and 

 plentiful, just north of Garth Castle; very local in Glen Lyon, 

 about four miles above Fortingal. No definite station in the 

 county was known to Dr. White ; but I understand that it has 

 been gathered near KilHn by Messrs. H. and J. Groves. 



Taraxacum spectabile Dahlst. Meall Garbh, Creag Mohr, &c. ; 

 apparently quite common on the mountains. 



Hteraciuvi anglicum Fr. The type and H. iricuvi Fr. grow by 

 the Lyon at several spots, though neither is abundant. 



H. sinuans F. J. Hanb. Sparingly by the stream at the foot 

 of Fin Glen, north-east of Ben Lawers, at 1600 ft. ; it ascends to 

 nearly 3000 ft. on Ben Lawers itself, but is rare in this district. 



H. nigrescens Willd. Typical, but extremely scarce, by the 

 Inverinain Burn, below Meall Garbh, between 1800 and 2000 ft. 



H. submurorum Lindeb. Specimens agreeing best with this 

 were found at 1700 ft. by the Allt Odhar stream, north-west of 

 Fortingal, among shaded rocks. Heads not quite so black as in 



