426 NOTK ON PRIMULA SINENSIS. 



Fig. Tab. 376. Tab. 379, fig. B 1-7. Journ. Bot. 1891, tab. 

 305. Wettst. Mon. taf. viii. fig. 8. 



Fl. August-Sept. 



DisTRiB. Highlands of Scotland. Aberdeen, Braemar (1890, 

 at an altitude of 1114 ft. and upwards). Inverness, Glen Spean 

 (1896, up to 2000 ft.) ; E. S. Marshall. Edge of Hill Loch, Moidart 

 (1894, from 850 to 900 ft.) ; S. M. Macvicar. Moors of Glenelg 

 (1897). EOSS, Ben Eay, "in abundance" (1896, from 1000 to 

 1400 ft.) ; C. E. Salmon. Moors above Loch Maree Hotel ; abun- 

 dant on moors east and west of Loch Ewe, and descending to 

 within a few feet of sea-level, 1897. Shetland, Hamar Voe, near 

 Hillswick, Northmaven (1891); frequent in Northmaven (1896), 

 where it is very dwarf and with darker coloured flowers ; W. H. 

 Beeby. Sutherland, near Bettyhill and Tongue (1897); W. S. 

 Marshall. 



E. Scotica is found in wet boggy ground, usually in company 

 with E. gracilis on the drier ground. The white flowers are smaller 

 than those of E. gracilis and the lower lip of the corolla does not 

 exceed the upper lip as it does in the latter species. Prof. Wettstein 

 considers E. Scotica to approach E. minima Schleich. so closely that 

 the only difi"erence he can detect lies in the length of the capsule 

 which " is shorter or at most as long as the calyx" in the specimens 

 he has seen, while that of E. minima "always exceeds the calyx." 

 It appears that these relative proportions in K. Scotica are not 

 constant, as specimens from Ben Eay and also from Moidart have 

 the capsule exceeding the calyx. A marked distinction seems to 

 lie in the form of the upper leaves and bracts of E. Scotica which 

 are narrower than those of E. minima and have a cuneate base. 

 E. Scotica also seems to prefer decidedly wetter situations. 



The name " paludosa" which I originally gave to this species, 

 from its habitat, had already been applied by E. Brown to an 

 Australian species, and Prof. Wettstein has in his Monograph 

 substituted the name Scotica which I am bound to accept. 



E. Scotica until this year had been found only at an elevation of 

 about one thousand feet and upwards above sea-level, but it also 

 occurs abundantly in the neighbourhood of Poolewe (Eoss-shire), 

 Glenelg (Inverness-shire) and probably elsewhere, near the sea, only 

 a few feet above sea-level, and inland at a low elevation. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTE ON PEIMULA SINENSIS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S. 



In the Botanical Magazine for October (t. 7559) Sir J. T>. Hooker 

 has an interesting account of the history of this plant, in the course 

 of which he points out that, "though so long known under culti- 

 vation, [it] has only within comparatively few years been collected 

 in a native state" — first by Mr. T. Watters (misprinted "Walters" 



