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plant from Ben More (88), at fully 3000 ft., with shorter scapes, 

 and broader, yellower petals than usual: — "Aform of sponhemica 

 approachmg cce^pitosa, and not typical sponhemica,' 



*Mijrrhis odorata Scop. By the Nevis Water, about two miles 

 above Fort William (97) ; a very doubtful native here. 



Matricaria inodora L. Prof. Babington writes of the Dunnet 

 Links form: — "I do not consider this salina, but join it with 

 Ruprecht's plant, phaocephala.'* Yet it does not closely resemble 

 that from Durness, so named by Dr. Lange, having shorter 

 peduncles, less showy heads, with narrower, more numerous ray- 

 florets ; leaflets shorter, and quite twice as broad. Of the latter 

 example Prof. Babington says: — "It is j^^^^ocephala (Rii^v. Symb. 

 Fl. Ross. 42), which I have mistakenly called maritima. I have 

 it from Orkney and Shetland, but poor specimens. It is the 

 c. maritima of Lond. Cat." But as I write, there is lying before me 

 a third specimen, collected on the sand-hills at Ackergill, near 

 Wick, in 1886, with Messrs. Grant and Hanbury, which clearly 

 cannot come under either salina or phaocephala, and is, I qaite 

 believe, the true M. maritima L., its whole as^Dect being different 

 from that of any M. inodora I ever saw. The rootstock is woody, 

 apparently perennial, clothed at the crown with dead leaf-bases ; 

 the stem branched only from above the middle, nearly naked below; 

 the large, solitary heads borne on widely-spreading peduncles, from 

 8-4^ in. long. It appears to tally with Linne's description: — 

 *' Receptaculis hemisph^ericis, foliis bipinnatis subcarnosis, supra 

 couvexis, subtus carinatis," as well as with Nyman's comment : — 

 '* Habitus proprius. Folior. segmenta divaricata, crassa, latiuscula" 

 (Consp. p. 374). Having seen no type-specimens, I cannot, how- 

 ever, feel more than a moral certainty upon this point. 



"^Hicraciiun melanocephaliim Tausch. Clach Leathad, near Kings- 

 house (98). — H. eximium Backh. Clach Leathad (98). I am not 

 certain whether type or b. tenellum. — H. calendidijioriim Backh. 

 I am glad to be able to verify my last year's record of this from 

 Stob Ban (97). A seedling from the same mountain has recently 

 blossomed in the garden, and I also appear to have sent it thence 

 to Mr. Hanbury. — '^H. liw/ulatum Backh. Clach Leathad (98), 

 sparingly, with yellow styles, but otherwise quite typical. — H, 

 argenteum Fr. Glen Nevis ("^^97), at 750 ft. ; streamlet on Clach 

 Leathad (*98), at 1200 ft. Very frequent about Clova. — *//. 

 o(j(jrc(iatiun Backh. Mr. Hanbury writes that two young plants 

 sent from Stob Ban, Glen Nevis (97), and grown on, have proved 

 to be this, quite typical; it is an interesting addition. — H. vuhjatum 

 Fr. Glen Nevis (*97j. Kiugshouse (*98). — H. auratum Fr. By 

 the Tay, between Dunkeld and Ballinluig (88). Glen Nevis ("^'97), 

 plentifully. Near the Doll Shooting-lodge, Clova (^^90). This, 

 apparently Backliouse's ^' rigidum,'' is clearly quite one of the 

 commonest accipitrinc hawkweeds in Scotland. The plants reported 

 by me last year from Lawcrs and Glen Nevis as ''H. Eiipatorium'* 

 (cori/mhosw)i) have been placed here by Dr. Lindeberg, as well as 

 one from the shore of Loch Awe (98), very near Mr. Druce's 

 Kilchurn Castle station. 



