PHANEROGAMS AND FERNS OF SOUTH ARDGOIL. 21 
some parts of fields, and occasional in grassy parts of the 
banks of streams up to 1400 feet. 
Red-rattle (Pedicularis palustris, Linn.)—Occasional on the 
hills in wet places up to 450 feet. 
Pasture-lousewort (Pedicularis sylvatica, Linn.)—More fre- 
quent and more widely distributed than the former, from sea- 
level to 1100 feet. 
Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense, Linn.)—Common on dry 
banks under shade at low levels, often in great abundance. 
On the mountains the form generally alters to the variety 
montanum ; frequently among shaded rock hollows up to 
1900 feet. On the Garbh, Cnoe Coinnich, it is plentiful at 
1750 feet among the blaeberry. 
Gipsy-wort (Lycopus europaeus, Linn.)—On the shore. 
Wild Thyme (Thymus Serpyllum, Linn.)—Common on dry 
banks and rocks and well distributed, but most typically 
developed from 1000 feet upwards to 1800 feet on dry, rocky 
places with a shallow earthy covering; apparently absent 
from shore, roads and low-lying habitats generally ; mainly a 
mountain plant. 
Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris, Linn.) — Common over the 
district from the shore-side up to 1500 feet, chiefly on dryish, 
grassy slopes. It always accompanies the daisy where the 
latter flower occurs in numbers on the mountains. 
Skull-cap (Scutellaria galericulata, Linn.) — See Shore 
Margin (p. 3). 
Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica, Linn,)—Occasional in the 
woods and wooded allts at low levels. 
Marsh-woundwort (Stachys palustris, Linn.)—Occasional on 
the roadside and by the shore. 
Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis T'etrahit, Linn.)—At low levels only. 
Wood-sage (Zeucrium Scorodonia, Linn.)—Frequent in dry 
places on banks, and occasional on dry, shaded slopes and 
rock hollows, but not noted above 450 feet. 
Bugle (Ajuga reptans, Linn.)—Occasional in places where 
water percolates from roadside ; up to 1900 feet. 
Sea-pink (Armeria vulgaris, Willd.)—On shore only. 
Greater Plantain (Plantago major, Linn.)—At low levels only. 
Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata, Linn.)—Very com- 
mon and widespread, being a constituent in all the grass-like 
associations from roadsides and shore rocks up to 1900 feet. 
