16 Dr Madire on Eubus Idsus tar. Leesii, 



that it at once attracted my atteiitiou, I forwarded 

 specimens to Professor Babington at Cambridge, and he 

 writes in reply : — " Your discovery is very interesting, 

 and you have named it correctly. I did formerly 

 consider it as a distinct species, but with some slight 

 doubt, as I believe that it does not ripen seed. I 

 have seen the fruit apparently ripe, but could never 

 find a ripe seed on it, nor indeed do I know that ripe 

 seeds ever have been found. Exactly the same plant is 

 found in Sweden, Germany, and France, and has gone 

 by various names, but all, I believe, posterior to my 

 name of Leesii. In the eighth edition of my Manual I 

 have placed it as a form under Idceus. It is not quite 

 constant in form, although nearly so." It will be noticed 

 that the annual or barren stems differ materially from the 

 flowering ones ; in the former the leaves are all more or 

 less trifid, the petiolules short, and the leaflets rounded ; 

 whereas in the latter the leaves are generally small, simple- 

 rounded, or trilobed, rather than trifid ; but, as Mr Babing- 

 ton remarks, they are not constant in form. These pecu- 

 liarities are most marked in the upper part of the plant. 

 Being from home during the summer, I was unable to note 

 the appearance of the plants at that season ; but my friend, 

 the Rev. Mark Anderson, tells me that he visited the spot, 

 and found that although the common raspberry was in full 

 fruit, not a single berry was to be found on the Leesii. 



It may be interesting to record a new station for the 

 Lysimachia vulgaris, which in the text-books is stated to 

 be rare in Scotland. I found it in September last on 

 Speyside, between Aviemore and Boat of Garten, and in 

 two separate localities a couple of miles distant from each 

 other. I believe it is quite new to that district, for the 

 Rev. Mr Keith of Forres, who has for many years been 

 engaged on the flora of the province of Moray, writes to 

 me that he is quite unacquainted witli it He suggests, 

 indeed, that it may have been a garden escape. The 

 common garden variety is, if I mistake not, quite a diff'erent 

 plant, the Lysimacliia ciliata (f). I found the Saxifraga 

 rivularis on the north face of the Cairngorm range, 

 growing at an elevation of only 2400 feet, by the Ord- 

 nance Survey map. This plant, which is considered one 



