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yet. I have long looked upon Watson’s alpina as the alpine form 
of officinalis; the new species named micacea by Marshall as 
the alpine form of anglica; and grenlandica, Linn., as the alpine 
form of danica. All these forms I have sent to experts different 
times, but they did not happen to be splitters. 
[548] Alchemilla vulgaris, Linn., and its forms have long troubled 
those of us who have paid the least attention to the species, I have 
tried many good botanists with them, but none seemed inclined 
to move until Mr. G. C. Druce, M.A., F.L.S., took them up in a 
paper on the species in the “ Annals of Scottish Natural History,” 
January, 1893. I made a few remarks on them myself in the 
Transactions of this Society for 1894 (Vol. IV., N.S’, p. 40). 
After I had sent a short communication on the subject to the 
* Annals of Scottish Natural History,” July, 1893, the Rev. E. F. 
Linton, M.A., took them up, and sent some specimens to M. Buser, 
of Geneva, who has cleared them up so far. The result is that we 
have our old friend montana, Willd., discarded, and three varieties 
put in its place. These are :—(a) pratensis (Schmidt), this is our 
common shady way-side and woodland plant with hairy stems and 
petioles, but no hairs on its calyx ; (6) alpestris (Schmidt), having 
a light yellowish-green foliage, with very few hairs on any part, 
and often shining stems and ruby-coloured petioles, mostly con- 
fined to alpine rills and wet ledges, but I saw it in Dumfriesshire 
this year; and (c) filicaulis (Buser), which we all know by the 
name of montana. It has a hairy calyx, and is very common on 
exposed and dry places, being abundant about Milngavie, near 
Glasgow. 
[723b] Heraclewum Sphondylium, Linn., var. angustifolium, 
Huds,, has been long kept out of the Catalogue. I do not con- 
sider that there would have been much harm done if it had been 
left out yet, as it is only a form that runs badly into the species, and 
it is only on the dry trap rocks in the East of Scotland, and in 
similar situations elsewhere, that it strikes one as being at all 
distinct, or worth passing notice. 
[810b] The reason for still keeping in var. radiata, Sond., of 
_ Bidens cernua, Linn., and not including Centaurea nigra, Linn., 
var. radians, I cannot understand. 
_ [1190b] Rhinanthus Crista-galli, Linn., var. Drummond-Hayi, 
F. B. White. Iam glad to see, for the sake of these two old friends, 
