FLORA OF THF, OUTER HEBRIDES. 37 



V. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE OUTER 

 HEBRIDES. 



BY ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



[Read 2Gth March, 1SS9.] 



In laying before the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow a few notes on the plants of the Watsonian 

 Vice-County No. 110, I wish at the commencement 

 to say that I do not pretend to search out or exhaust 

 the material that has accumulated since the well- 

 known journey of Messrs. Balfour and Babington 

 in 1841. In fact, had not my kind correspondent, 

 Mr. A Somerville, urged me to send these notes, I 

 should not have thought of doing so ; and it is to 

 him that whatever additional information there may 

 be is due. The author of some future Flora of these 

 islands must search out and collate the information 

 scattered in various publications. As it is, I will 

 merely indicate here those that have come under 

 my own eyes when making notes. 



T. Pennant, Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 



1774-6, with figures of plants. 

 W. Macgillivray, in Edinburgh Journal of Natural and 



Geographical Science, 1830, p. 91. 

 J. H. Balfour and C. C. Babington, in Transactions of the 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, vol, i., and Annals and 



Magazine of Natural History, 1841. 

 Dr. Stirton, in Scottish Naturalist, 1886, p. 182. 

 Arthur Bennett, „ „ 1887, pp. 56-66. 



Arthur Bennett, „ „ 1888, pp. 247-261. 



In 1841 Balfour and Babington gave the number 

 of plants for these islands as 311 species of flower- 

 ing plants and higher cryptogams. Up to the present 

 date they may be stated at 416 ; but as Mr. Somerville 



