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to be made to our Flora, so well searched a country as Britain 

 scarcely exists, ikc." How many have been made since this date^ 

 I have not thought it worth while to look up. For myself, I 

 venture to tiiink that even now there are many such still to be 

 found ; doubtless they will mainly occur among the less con- 

 spicuous genera — as the Carices, Junci, Aquatics, etc. — as the 

 results I now venture to bring before you will show. There is 

 one genus T have taken no notice of, that is, Rubus. In the 

 present state of our knowledge of the Rubi, it is a difficult 

 matter to say which are new; our plants have yet to be correlated 

 with the German and French forms ; for the German, Mr J. G. 

 JBaker, of Kew, is now publishing some notes in the " Journal of 

 Botany." With regard to Scottish Botany, I quite believe that 

 the fact of our Flora having been specially studied in relation to 

 the Germanic and French Floras, has led to less work being 

 done, than would have been, had its Flora been studied in 

 connection with that of Scandinavia. The Flora of Scandinavia 

 has been called " an aggressive Flora," and certainly up to tliis 

 date the distribution of Arctic species upholds this view. In 

 Lapland and Finmark you have an Arctic Flora richer than all 

 other Arctic Floras put together. But geographical distribution, 

 though a tempting subject, must be passed over. I propose to 

 simply note the species which have been known longest, and give 

 more detailed notes on the more recent. 



Ranunculiis oj^hioglosisif alius. — Found by Messrs Groves in 

 Hampshire. It has been extinct some years in the Jersey 

 locality. 



Ononis repens, L., var. horrida (Lange). — For some time 

 before 1883 I was convinced that the Oiionin of the Norfolk .sand 

 hills differed from our recognised forms, but I failed to identify it, 

 until I came across the description of horrida in Wilkhoram and 

 Lange's " Prodromus Flone Hispanica?," which seemed to fit it 

 well, and Professor Lange confirmed on my sending him speci- 

 mens. It occurs also in Sufiblk. The typical form also occurs 

 in Cornwall and elsewliere. It is one of the old plants of Ray 

 that had fallen out of notice. 



Hieracium Norveyicurn (Fries). — Found only last year (1885) 

 by my friend Mr F. J. Hanbury on the north coast of Caithness. 

 Other specimens gathered by Mr Hanbury in Caithness are con- 

 sidered near //. oreodes F. by Mr Baker, but by Dr Almquist as 

 rather to represent a form of Norvegicam. 



