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Only in Scotland = v.-c. 88 Perth mid. : near Caputh Bridge ! 

 1889, F. B. White. Meall Greigh, 1913 ! V.-c. 90 ! v.-c. 97 ; 

 v.-c. 111! v.-c. 112! 



The plant from Orkney, v.-c. Ill, in Hb. Kew, collected by 

 Dr. Gillies in 1818, is much coarser and taller, but I think must 

 be referred to this variety. 



A. PRATENSis Schmidt. Stems densely hairy with patent hairs 

 from base to practically summit, usually diminishing in quantity 

 tov\'ards the apex. Petioles densely hairy with patent (and rarely 

 appressed) hairs. Eoot-leaves glabrous above ; sparingly hairy 

 over surface beneath, more densely on veins. Pedicels and 

 urceoles glabrous (rarely with a few patent hairs). 



Vice-counties 3 I 4, 5, 16! 17 ! 20 I 23, 24 ! 34 ! 35 ! 38, 39 ! 41 ! 

 42 ! 44 ! 47 ! 54, 55, 57 ! 58 ! 59 ! 60 I 62 ! 63 ! 64 ! 65 ! 67 ! 69 ! 70 ! 

 72 ! 73 ! 75 ! 76, 77 I 79, 83 ! 84, 87 ! 88 ! 89 ! 90 ! 91 ! 92 ! 94 ! 99, 

 100, 106, 109, 111, 112 ! 



A. ALPESTEis Schmidt. Vice-counties 6 ! 14 ! 21, 24 ! 27 ! 39, 

 41 ! 43 ! 46 ! 48 ! 49 I 55 ! 57 ! 58, 59 ! 60 ! 62, 64 ! 65 ! 66 ! 67 ! 

 69 I 70 ! 72 ! 73 ! 74 ! 77 ! 78, 79, 81 ! 83 ! 84 ! 86 ! 87 ! 88 ! 89 ! 

 90 ! 92 ! 94, 95 ! 96 ! 97 ! 98 ! 99 ! 100, 101 ! 103 ! 104, 105, 106, 

 107, 108, 109! 110, 111! 



It will be seen that, as far as Great Britain is concerned and 

 as far as our present records stand, ^4. minor is the commonest and 

 most widely spread form, occurring from Shetland to Devon and 

 Suffolk to Carnarvon. A. 'pratensis is almost equally widely dis- 

 tributed, with a range from Shetland to Devon and Kent to 

 Carmarthen, but seems to be absent from rather more counties 

 than minor, particularly in the Ouse and N. Thames provinces. 



A.alpestris, obviously of a more northern type, occurs copiously 

 in Scotland and the north of England, and reaches as far south as 

 Norfolk, Leicester and Cai'digan, with outlying colonies in Sussex, 

 Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Somerset, and Glamorgan. 



For the loan of specimens and help in other ways my thanks 

 are due to Professor I. B. Balfour, Dr. C. E. Moss, Dr. H. 

 Lindberg, and Messrs. W. G. Travis, W. Barclay, C. Bailey, J. A. 

 Wheldon, A. Bennett, J. W. White, G. C. Druce, and the Perth 

 Museum authorities ; the photographs of the leaves were kindly 

 taken by my sister. 



ALABASTRA DIVERSA.— Part XXV. 



By Spencer Le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



1. Plants Nov^ Papuans, 

 adjuvante h. n. ridley, f.r.s.* 



Begoniace^. 

 y Begonia sogerensis Ridl., sp. nov. Rhizoma sublignosum. 

 Caules herbacei, glabri, 30 cm. alti, tistulosi, ramosi, 5 mm. crassi, 

 striolati, ramis hirtulis. Folia obliqua, oblongo-lanceolata, acu- 



* The types of species described are in the National Herbarium. 



