116 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND. 



\'^' Veronica heeler csfolia, L. — " The Glebe," Wick. 



r^V. Buxbaumii, Ten. (H. C. W.).— " The Glebe," Wick. 



*F. arveiisisy L. — Thrumster ; Wick. 



\-''Mwndus hiteus, L. — Common on Wick and Thurso rivers and 

 Eeay Burn. " I doubt if this is a garden escape, as there is no 

 garden within great distance, and the plant growing in dense 

 masses," Mr. Grant. 



"''Bhinanthus Crista-galli, L. — Wick river. 



"^'Nepeta GlecJioma, Benth. (109) H. C. W. Top. Botany.— 

 Banks of Thurso and Wick rivers. " I should say decidedly wild," 

 Mr. Grant. 

 \'''Lamium intermedium., Fries. — The Glebe, Wick. 



■•''StacJiijs amhii/ua, Sm. — Occurs in two stations with palustr is and 

 sylvatica. Wick ; Thrumster. Quite Dr. Boswell's Orkney plant, 

 A. B. 



"^'Teucrium Scorodonia, L. — Fairly plentiful in a wood at Berrie- 

 dale, now used by the Duke of Portland as a deer forest. 



"^'Mijosotispalustris, With., var. strigidosa. (H. C. W.) — Wick river. 

 Trientcdis europcea, L. — Duncansby Head. 



"''^ Polygonum lapathifolium, L. — Westerseat. Wick. 



"^'Atriplex angustifolia, Sm. — Westerseat. 



*.4. Babingtonii, Woods. — North Head, Wick Bay. 

 Salix ambigua, Ehrh. — Yarrow Hills. 



*,S. / — Eev. J. E. Leefe remarks on a specimen from 



Scouthall, " Considerably like S. ambigua, but it is even more like 

 S. Finmarkica (Willd.), Fr., which has the ovaries smooth like this. 

 I have a remark from Koch himself, in which he states that S. 

 Finmarkica is a variety of 5'. repens, and not of S. ambigua, as it 

 is said to be in the Synopsis " (Fries Sum. Veg. Scan., p. 207). 

 S. Finmarkica, Willd., is a plant of Lapland and Finmark, N. 

 Germany ? 



*iS. phylicifolia, L. (form). Lybster. 

 S. aurita, L. — " A small form." Yarrow Hills. 

 S. aurita? — Knockfinn Heights. " Some of the buds indicate 

 a resemblance to aurita, but I am doubtful," Eev. J. E. Leefe. 



'^'Sparganium minimum, Fries. — In several small lochs. Loch 

 Calder, &c. 



'^ Paris guadrifolia, L. — " Only one station known." Watten. 

 This extends its northern distribution from 96 Westerness, but it 

 may be found in Orkney, occurring as it does in Iceland, Lapland, 

 and Finmark. 



*Scilla nutans, Sm. — Dunbeath Water. Larrgwell. 



■'•' Potamogetun prcelongus, Wulf. — Yarrow, Watten, and Hemp- 

 rigg's lochs ; after a storm some of the specimens washed ash(a-e 

 measure six feet long. 



-P. pectinatus, L. — " 109 ?" H. C. W. Top. Botany. Yarrow 

 Hills. 



*P. filiformis, Nolte. — Thurso and Wick rivers, " and various 

 lochs." 



*P. polggonifoUus, Pourr. — On the moors in little Dhu lochs. 



^^'P. nutans, L. — In Wick river, and elsewhere. 



