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Rosa mollis X jiimpmellifolia . 108. The beautiful rose from near 

 Betty Hill, for which M. Crepin had already suggested such an 

 origin, he now decidedly confirms as this hybrid. There are three 

 distinct colonies within a few hundred yards, all exactly resembling 

 one another. B,. mollis grows at no great distance, but is much 

 scarcer than R. tomentosa. — Pi. pmpiiiellifolia x tomentosa. 107. In 

 the valley of the Brora river, about a mile above the village.— 

 R. glaiica X pimp ine II if alia. 107.* By the river-side at Brora — a 

 single bush. M. Crepin assents to our identification of it with 

 R. hibeniica var. glabra Baker. — R, coriifulia Fries, var. Baherl 

 (Deseglise). 107. Near the shore of Loch Fleet ; also frequent 

 about Brora. "C'est une var. du R. corlifolia Fries faisant partie 

 du Pi. Bakeri Desegl. Ce R. Bakeri peut avoir les pedicelles lisses 

 ou un pen glanduleuses " (Crepin inlitt.). The strongly-hooked 

 prickles are very characteristic of this fine rose, which is by no 

 means uncommon on the coasts of E. Ross and E. Inverness, 

 varying somewhat in armature, but well marked upon the whole. 



Cratmfus monogyna Jacq. 108. A form with curious deeply- 

 incised broad leaf-segments was found in a precipitous birch-wood 

 on the E. side of the Kyle of Tongue ; certainly native. 



Sedum anglicum Hudson. 107.* Coast near Golspie. 



Epilohium alsiiiefolium X palustre. 106. Rocky streamlet on the 

 W. side of Ben Laoghal at 1700 ft., together with the parents. 



Circcea alpina L. 107.* Dunrobin Glen, Golspie. The C. inter- 

 media Ehrhart, of Scotland, which grows near Dunphail, can hardly 

 be a hybrid, as it is found abundantly in localities from which 

 C. lutetiana appears to be altogether absent. 



Conium maciilatiim L. 107.* Brora ; Golspie — in the former 

 station, at least, it appears to be truly wild. 



Carum Carvi L. The caraway now grows plentifully over quite 

 half a mile of ground near Melvich, and looks quite indigenous ; but 

 it occurs as an evident escape on other parts of the north coast, so 

 that it may be merely naturalized here. 



^gopodium Podagraria L. 107. Golspie; not native, we believe. 



Pimpiyiella Saxifraga L. 107.* Coast between Brora and Gol- 

 spie. 108. Var. dlssecta With, was met with in limited quantity on 

 Melness Sands, near Tongue, among a large quantity of another 

 variety (also abundant on sandy ground at Farr Bay), which seems 

 to approach P. nigra Willd., as defined by Koch, Syn. ed. 2, p. 446 

 {7iot the var. nigra of p. 316), though the pubescence is less marked 

 than in that description ; it can certainly not be referred to the 

 type, and tends towards P. major in habit. 



Ligiisticum scoticum L. 108. Rocky coast, Betty Hill. 



Caucalis Anthrisciis Hudson. 107. Golspie. 



Linncea horealis L. 107. In the middle of a pine-wood near 

 Golspie. We had previously been informed of its occurrence there, 

 and though it appears to be well known locally, it is not recorded from 

 E. Sutherland in Top. Bot. Extremely scarce; only three or four 

 plants were seen. 



Galium palustre L. We believe that all the plants seen by us in 

 106-8 were var. Witheringii (Smith). — G. Aparine L. 108. Mr. 



