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forms which usually are flowerless in their native stations 

 that may be sent me. They are most easily transplanted 

 in the winter-bud condition, when they may be posted 

 either in a small bottle or tube of water, or in wet rag 

 secured from evaporation ; but, with care in the supply of 

 moisture, they will probably bear transplantation at any 

 season. 



Contributions towards a Flora of West Eoss. By 

 G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 



The first notice which I am acquainted with of any 

 plants occurring in the vice-county of West Eoss (No. 105 

 of Watson's " Topographical Botany ") is to be found in- the 

 two volumes of Lightfoot's "Flora Scotica," which is dated 

 1777. The Eoss-shire plants mentioned in it, which 

 appear to belong to the western watershed, are as follows : 

 — Circcca alpina, Cynosurus cceindcus (Sesleria cceridea), 

 Chenopoclium maritimum (Sucda maritima), Cormis suecica, 

 Vaccinium uUginosum, Juncus trijldus, Epilohium alpinum, 

 Arhutiis alpina {Ardostaphylos aljnna), Pyrola minor, P. 

 secunda, Satyrmm repeois (Goody era repens), Ophrys cordata, 

 (Listera cordata), Ophrys cmnUorhiza (Corallorhiza innata), 

 Dryas octopetala, Draha incana, Asplenium viridc. Poly- 

 podium Lonchitis (Polystichum Lonchitis), HieraciiLm alpinum, 

 Tanacetum vidgare, Sparganiiim natans, Poa maritima 

 {Glyceria maritima), Pinus sylvestris, Tricliomanes tun- 

 bridgcnses {Hymcnophyllum unilaterale), Osm^tnda Lunaria 

 (Botrycliium Lunaria). Betuki nana is given as growing 

 on the moors of Loch Glass, but these I believe drain into 

 the Eastern Sea. Of the foregoing plants the exact identity 

 of Sparganium natans, and Hieracium alpinum is doubtful. 

 Up to the present time, so far as I am aware, Sesleria, 

 Goodyera, and Corallorhiza have not since been found, they 

 probably will be rediscovered. 



In "English Botany," 1809, Stachys amligua is reported 

 on the authority of W. Borrer and W. J. Hooker from the 

 side of Loch Carron. The plate in " English Botany " is 

 numbered 2089. 



In Hooker's "Flora Scotica," 1821, we have two additional 



