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often spoken of as puerile, is in reality of great ethnolog-Jcal and 

 antiquarian value. 



IV.—" Notes on some Scotch Plants, especiaWi with relation to Dmv 

 friesshire and Gal/owa,/, and their relation as Native Species " 

 By Mr Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon. 

 I think I am correct in saying that the late Mr H. C. Watson 

 was rather too doubtful of the claims of many species to be native 

 m Scotland. Plants that " run out " in the north midland counties 

 of England appear sparsely, and then only in limited areas in the 

 northern counties, and then again appear in the southern 

 counties of Scotland, were held by him to be in many cases 

 dubious natives of Scotland. Dr Buchanan White, in a valuable 

 paper read before the Perthshire Natural History Society, has 

 discussed with much care the claims of many of these as natives of 

 Perthshu-e. I here propose to notice some of them, and to see 

 how their northern extension into Scandinavia, where they have 

 to bear much colder though drier winters, and in some localities 

 much hotter summers, especially in some of the valleys of the 

 remarkable Sogne Fjiord in Norway, lends itself to their being 

 Scotch plants. 



Ranmmdus fluitans, Zam.-Should occur in one of the counties • 

 It is recorded for Roxburgh, Lanark, and Berwick 



Calthtpalnstris, Z.-Of this genus a monograph has just been pub- 

 lished, many European forms are named ; specimens require to be 

 collected to see under what our plants come. 



Aquilegia vulgaris, L.-Seems to be doubted as a Scottish native- its 

 distribution on the Continent does not lend itself to favour this 

 idea. Occurs in Norway, and in Sweden north to Dalarne and 

 accepted as indigenous in Finland in several localities. 



Braha incana.-Fvom Cumberland, not on record until Mid Perth • 

 surely will occur in one of the counties; occurs quite low in 

 Caithness. 



Cardamine impatiens.—MnAtteA doubtfully for Ayr by Watson • 

 the localities in Dumfries are not conmiented on as to their status 

 by either Mr M'Andrew or Mr Scott-Elliot. It occurs in South 

 Norway, in Sweden north to Vermland, but is not recorded for 

 r inland 



Nastm-livm amphiUum, R.Br.-lW.ovded for Dun,fries (1789) in a 

 locality that reads native. A species that ought to be a native 



