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to be made to our Flora, so well searched a country as Britain 
scarcely exists, &c.” How many have been made since this date! 
I have not thought it worth while to look up. For myself, I 
venture to think 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, &c.—as the 
results I now venture to bring before you will show. There is 
one genus [ have taken no notice of, that is, Rubus. In the 
present state of our knowledge of the Rubi, it is a difticult 
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. 
Baker, 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 this 
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. 
Ranunculus ophioglossifolius—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 Ononis 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 Wilkhomm and 
Lange’s “ Prodromus Flore Hispanice,” which seemed to fit it 
well, and Professor Lange confirmed on my sending him speci- 
mens. It occurs also in Suffolk. The typical form also occurs 
in Cornwall and elsewhere. It is one of the old plants of Ray 
that had fallen out of notice. 
Hieracium Norvegicum (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 H. oreodes F. by Mr Baker, but by Dr Almquist as 
rather to represent a form of Vorvegicum. 
