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abundance of flowery Hieracia upon the Cairngorms being a notice- 

 able feature in the flora of that interesting group of mountains. 

 This year the opposite condition of cHmate prevailed, as I reached 

 the Boat of Garten on the thirty-second consecutive wet day, while 

 the low barometric registration was almost equalled by that of the 

 thermometer. Cold windy weather, with clouded skies, driving rain 

 and mist, causing, as might be expected, a malevolent influence 

 upon vegetation, retarding or preventing the flowering of the hawk- 

 weeds, of which vuJgatiim was almost the only one in flower; 

 the roses were in such a backward condition as to prevent naming 

 them with any degree of precision, and the continued wet rendered 

 the investigation of several marshes (which last year were accessible) 

 almost impossible. Mountain work, too, was greatly impeded by 

 the stormy weather, especially as we were so far from their base. 

 With all these drawbacks, the number of additional records to those 

 of last year could not be very numerous. In the following list of 

 plants, such as are believed to be new to Top. Bot. ed. 2, are marked 

 with an asterisk. 



Around the Boat of Garten we gathered Bromus racemosus L., 

 "^^Alopecunis ijujsuroides Huds., and, scattered in many localities in 

 cultivated ground, Erysimum cheirantlioidcs L. On dry banks near 

 the railway grew Reseda lutea L., with Anthijllis Vulneraria L. and 

 Atjropyron repens Beauv., *var. Vaillantium Eeiclib. On the moor- 

 land were ^^Hahenaria chlorantha Bab., with '^Thymus Chamadrys 

 Fries, Plantago lanceolata L. "^var. capitata Presl, Radiola Linoides 

 Both., and a very narrow-leaved and dwarf form of Vicia Cracca L. 

 In the adjoining marsh, with Drosera ohovata Mert. et Koch, and 

 Midaxis paludosa Sw., grew Xitella opaca kg., Epilohium paliistre L. 

 *var. Uneare (Krause) Haussk., ^^Putamoyeton natans L., Galium 

 palustreli. *var. Witherinyii (Sm.), "^^Myosotis cccspitosa Schultz. (if 

 that name be not antedated by 3i. maritima Fries in Fl. Hall. 1817), 

 and '''Eleocharis acicidaris Br. 



Cairngorm was ascended on an unpromising day. On the long 

 uninteresting ascent to Corrie Sneachda, Pyrola rotimdifolia and 

 P. secunda were gathered, as well as a specimen of Cornus suecica, 

 which had the usual white bracts replaced by foliaceous ones. In 

 the corrie a luxuriant variety of Carex rigida Good, was gathered, 

 which does not come well under any of the named varieties of that 

 rather protean plant. Carex lagopina Wahl. was more abundant 

 than last year over its rather limited area. C. approximata Hoppe, 

 in Cent.-exsic. 1800, is an earlier name, and one that must stand 

 until it shall have been proved that Allioni's C. hipartita is identical, 

 which the plate of that plant in Flor. Pedemont. (iii., p. 265, 

 tab. 89, fig. 5) does not suggest. In Journ. Bot. 1888, p. 156, a 

 valued correspondent states that this ''involves the adoption of 

 an ambiguous name, and so can hardly be pressed," as he sees 

 "there is another C. approximata Hoppe, 1794, a variety of C, 

 ericetorum Poll."; but tliis statement is not quite accurate. It 

 was Allioni, in 1785, who gave the name C. approximata to the 

 species (not a variety) previously described as C. ericetorum Poll., 

 and as Allioni's name of approximata could not be adopted, it 



