174 NOTES OF A TOUE IN N. SCOTLAND. 



a burn near the sea, a beautiful variation with very large and 

 highly-coloured flowers abounds; and in meadows, &c., near Mel- 

 ness a luxuriant form (often over a foot high) is plentiful — we 

 believe this to be identical with the eyebright so conspicuous on 

 Keay Links, 109, which was formerly referred to E. pratensis Fries. 



— E. borealis Townsend. 106. Sedgy swamp on the coast a little 

 N. of Tain ; a tall state. 107. Grassy banks of the burn in the 

 upper part of Dunrobin Glen, near Golspie. Hollows among the 

 sandhills, Brora. 108. Altnaharra. — E. scottica Wettstein. 108. 

 Altnaharra, abundant ; by Loch Mer, near Betty Hill ; plentiful 

 near Tongue, especially along the coast about Melness and Talmin. 

 On barren heathy gi-ound near Talmin we found it very small and 

 slender, with bright violet-purple flowers ; usually they are whitish. 



— E. curta Fries, var. glahrescens Wettst. 106. Blown sand, E. of 

 Tain, in great quantity ; this peculiar plant is not unlike the figure 

 of E, curta in Fl. Danica, t. 1037, which Wettstein (Mon. Euphr.) 

 says is a bad one. 107. Sandy ground between Brora and Golspie 

 — small and compact, much resembling the Herb. Normale specimens 

 at Kew, except that these are very hairy, and so exhibit a super- 

 ficial likeness to dwarf plants of the following. — E. Jatifolia Pursh. 

 108. Extremely abundant on exposed grassy cliffs near Melvich, 

 eglandular (also seen on cliffs near Betty Hill) ; on the E. side of 

 Tongue Bay, glandular. — Forma grandijiora Wettst. Bank above 

 the Naver, Betty Hill, in two conditions ; one of these scarcely 

 differs from type, the other being taller and densely glandular. This 

 well-marked subspecies appears to have been first noticed in 1886 

 (Hanbury & Marshall) ; it agrees very well with Fl. Danica, t. 2910. 



— E. foulaensis Townsend. Clearly this is quite common in the 

 extreme north ; it difi'ers much in appearance, even in the same 

 neighbourhood, being often only a bare inch in height and very 

 fleshy, on grassy cliffs facing the north. All the gatherings placed 

 here by Prof. Wettstein are distinguishable by the glabrescent 

 bluntly-toothed leaves, small flowers with included tube, and 

 especially by the full-grown capsules decidedly exceeding the 

 sepals. 107. Damp grassy ground by Loch Fleet. 108. Melvich, 

 in great quantity and very variable ; marsh by the Naver near 

 Betty Hill, above the bridge ; E. side of Tongue Bay ; Ben Laoghal, 

 from 1000 to 1500 ft., and Ben Hope, at 2000 ft.— these alpine 

 plants closely resemble Mr. Townsend' s figure in Journ. Bot. for 

 1887. On Ben Hope and Ben Laoghal, where it grows mixed with 

 E. brevipila, we gathered a few specimens intermediate in character, 

 having the long capsules and glabrescence so noticeable in foulaensis, 

 together wdth the larger flowers and stiff hairs of brevijnla, and an 

 occasional gland ; these are almost certainly hybrids. 109. Cliffs 

 between Thurso and Scrabster ; Holburu Head. 



Bartsia Odontites Hudson, var. litorcdis Keichenbach (Odontites 

 litoralis Fries). 107.''' Damp submaritime pastures near Loch Fleet. 

 108.* Coast of Tongue Bay, near Melness. These agree well with 

 continental specimens so named. 



Pihinanthus Crista-galli L. var. Drummond-Hayi B. White. 108. 

 Ben Hope. 



