KiO TIIK .TOl'KNAL OF MOTANV 



which appear to he tlie true jdaiit. E. B. 2277 was pi-ohahly ligured 

 from the drirj tv])e-specimen in Herh. Smith, liaving just the same 

 abnormal habit; the original drawing shows much more copiously 

 ciliate leaves, less coarse than in the coloured engraving. 



S. L.ETEViKENS I). Dsn, /. (?., pp. 4.51-2. — This has never been 

 figured ; and the only authentic example known to me, probably from 

 hills to the north of Loch Lomond, where Don says that he observed 

 it, is in Herb. Kew. It \vas first found by his father on the highest 

 mountains of Angusshire and Aberdeenshire. The original Latin 

 description (Don calls it "this very distinct and elegant species") 

 and Smith's English one (Engl. Fl. 2S0) suggest that it comes very 

 near S. plafijpefdia ; Smith had not seen it. I think that a sheet 

 which I collected on Ben More, v. c. 88 Mid Perth, above 3000 feet, 

 on June 30, 1888, and noted as having "herbage greener, and flowers 

 Yellower, than in our ordinary sponhemica," agrees very well. There 

 is much difference in habit and foliage from S. platypefala ; and 

 Mr. Baker thought it " a state [of his aponhemica] approaching 

 ctespitosay The leaves of the central rosette and of the barren 

 shoots are more numerous and more crowded than in platypefala, and 

 usually have broader segments; the herbage and stems are also 

 decidedly more glabrous. Flowers fewer (one to four) ; lateral 

 pedicels strongly recurved in bud. Petals closer-set, flatter, with three 

 cons])icuous greenish veins. Sepals mostly recurved at the mucronate 

 ti])s after flowering. 1 believe, also, that some gatherings from 

 Correifron and Midlaw Burn, near Moffat, v. c. 72 Dumfries, by 

 Rev. W. R. Linton and myself (in the former station by him, 1890, 

 as ;S'. sponhenuca), and which I distributed as S. liypnoides in 1907, 

 cannot be either that or *S'. platypefala, and belong to S. Icetevirens ; 

 but none of the above-mentioned plants have yet been compared with 

 the Kew^ material, so the matter is still an open question. 



S. HYPXOIDES L., Sp. PI. (17-53), and Herb. Linn.! ^. eu- 

 hypnohles ^i. yemmifera Syme, E. B., ed. 3, p. 83, t. 562. The 

 original Enylish Botany figure, t..454, is very j)Oor. — ^Our normal 

 form is just like the Linnean type. It varies a good deal, according 

 to situation ; but the alleged varieties have no j^ermanenee. >S'. densa 

 Haworth, Misc. Nat., of which there is a cultivated s])ecimen in 

 Herb. Kew. is a case in point. 



There is, however, a very fine, strong form fi-om Black Head, Co. 

 Clare ( H. C. Levinye, sp. 1892), doubtless also to be found elsewhere 

 on limestone in the West of Ireland, which is so different from all our 

 others that it deserves description as a new variety. I have the same 

 thing in my garden, sent by Mr. Praeger for Mr. Huiuiybun to draw, 

 and pass,ed on to me. drown close to the type (from Cheddar), it 

 keeps quite different ; notably in the absence of axillai-y Ijuds on the 

 long barren shoots, and in its very large, orbicular or oljovate, more 

 distinctly 3-veined petals. 



I have not noted the altitude reached, but believe that 1 have seen 

 S. liypnoides {vera) up to fully 3-500 feet on Ben Lawers ; it also 

 •j-rows low down. Scotland, f i-om Sutherland to the Border. England, 

 in the north and west (including Wales), reaching its southern limits 



