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OrnpER XXX VI.—BORAGIN ACE. 
Genus CLVII.—ECHIUM (Linn.) 
321. E. VULGARE (Linn.), Viper’s Bugloss. 
Found in cornfields—no doubt an escape. Flaws, 
Holm; Skelbister, Orphir ; Lopness, Sanday. 
Genus CLVIIL—SYMPHYTUM (Linn.) 
322. S. OFFICINALE (Linn.), Comfrey. 
Var. patens (Sibth.) Found in Hoy by Dr Grant, 
but he thinks introduced. It is growing as a weed in 
garden of Bu, Burray—introduced. 
Genus CLIX.—MERTENSIA, (Roth.) 
323. M. MARITIMA (Gray), Oyster Plant. 
This is one of our prettiest plants, and fairly 
abundant on several shores. It grows freely just 
above high-water mark, on the seaweed cast up 
by the sea. It is found in Holm, Deerness, South 
Ronaldshay, Sanday, Walls, Birsay, Xe. 
Genus CLX.—LYCOPSIS (Linn.) 
324, L. ARVENSIS (Linn.), Bugloss. Fairly common, 
out local. 
It is found generally in sandy soils—Deerness, 
Houton, Aikerness, We. 
Genus CLXI.—MYOSOTIS (Linn.), Scorpion Grass. 
325. M. CHSPITOSA (Schultz). Common in rills 
and burns. 
326. M. arvensis (Hill), Field Scorpion-grass, 
Common, 
