hii FLORA ORCADENSIS. 
of the Professors of Botany in our Universities. 
Not only did he comply heartily with any request 
I made on his time, but he enlisted the sympathy 
of one or two who he thought would be of service 
to me. 
I also gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness 
to Mr GrorGe ScartH, M.A., who was for some 
years assistant to Professor Balfour, Edinburgh Uni- 
versity. He has examined the flora of the West 
Mainland and the neighbourhood of Kirkwall pretty 
thoroughly. He was the first to find Carex lamosa 
in Orkney, on the moor between Hillside, Birsay, 
and Evie. He has already made a valuable contri- 
bution to the flora of Orkney in his “ Keology of 
Orkney Vegetation in its Relation to the Different 
Classes of Soil.” The paper was published in the 
“Proceedings of the Edinburgh Botanical Society” 
for 1911, and is full of interest and suggestion. He 
and I spent a very profitable week in Sanday and 
Papa Westray in September 1909, and were rewarded 
by finding the following rare plants :—Thalictrum 
minus, var. dunense, and Sium angustiforum in 
Sanday ; and Ranunculus hederacea and Linum 
cathurticum, var. condensatium, 11 Papa Westray. 
We also got at that time large numbers of Pramula 
scotica, var. nova, in sandy links of Papa Westray. 
Col. H. H. Jounston, D.Sc., M.D. GB. Fey 
has been an unwearied student of Oreadian botany. 
During his several intermittent periods of furlough 
from his medical duties in India, Africa, Egypt, 
