FLORA OF BARRA AND SOUTH UIST. gt 



IV. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BARRA AND 



SOUTH UIST. 



BY ALEX. SOMEBVILLE, B.SC, P.L.S. 



[Read 26th March, 1839.] 



At the meeting of the Society in December, 1887, I 

 had the pleasure of reading a paper entitled "Notes 

 on the Flora of the Island of Barra," giving results 

 ot botanisuig during a week spent in Barra in the 

 month of .July of that year, when some fifteen 

 Howenng plants, not previously recorded as growing- 



I'Jm f ?'^*'''' Hebrides (Watsonian Vice-County No. 

 IIU), had been met with. 



Last July (1888) I had the opportunity of revisiting 

 the same quarter, and of spending one week iS 

 Barra and another in the southern or Lochboisdale 

 end of the Island of South Uist. Before starting I 

 was placed under great obligations by our Corres- 

 pondmg Member, Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S who 

 was good enough to furnish me with a copy of the 

 e.ghtJi edition of the London Catalogue of British 

 Plants, m which he had marked all the species known 

 to grow m the Outer Hebrides. With this in hand 

 1 was set free to devote attention to species un- 

 marked, which the list left me to understand had not 

 previously been recorded, and I had arranged to make 

 thrice-weekly despatches to Mr. Bennett of living 

 specimens of unmarked plants, in order that he 

 might for himself see and examine them in the 

 fresh state. 



In my former paper I referred to the physical 

 features of Barra, and need not consequently dwell 

 on these here. Barra presents great variety of 



