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Jeantown, and the var. horridas, Koch., at Strathcarron, 

 Kishorn, etc. 



Saussukea alpina, DC. — IJare. On Sgurr Fhuaran,.SguiT 

 ua Caorach. No personal authority for this plant is given 

 in " Topographical Botany." The flowers have a powerful 

 heliotrope odour. 



* Centaurea nigra, L. — Connnon, and widely distri- 

 buted. 



* C. Cyanus, L. — liare, and perhaps only a casual. Kin- 

 lochewe. Dixon gives it in his list of Gairloch plants. 



* Lapsana COMMUNIS, L. — lu scattered localities through 

 the county, and indubitably native. A more pubescent 

 form was found on the shingle at Ullapool. 



* Crepis virens, L. — Strome, Ullapool, Applecross. etc. 

 The var. arjrcstis, Kit., occurred at Ullapool and Jeantown. 

 Dixon gives C. tedonnn, L., as well as C. rirais in his list, 

 but C. teetorum is not a British plant. 



* C. PALUDOSA, Mccnch. — Common, and widely distri- 

 buted. 



* HiERACiUM Pilosella, L. — Xot common. Xorth side 

 of Loch Duich. 



*H. melanocephalum, Tausch. (7/. (iJpimun, L.). — Ben 

 Eay. Bare. The specimens were much over flower. 



* H. holosericeum, Backh. — Bare. Ben Eay. 



(?* H. GLOBOSUM, Backh. — Some specimens of apparently 

 this species occurred on Ben Eay, but they were too far 

 gone over to be identified with certainty.) 



* H. CHRYSANTUUM, Backh. — On Ben Eay, Sgurr Fhuarau, 

 An Teallach, etc. 



* H. eximium, Backh., var. tenellum, Backh. — Ben Eay. 

 liare. Specimens much gone over, of what were probably 

 the type plant, were seen on Ben Eay. 



* H. LiNGULATUM, Backli. — A rather frequent montane 

 hawk weed, as on Beu Eay, the Slioch, An Teallach, Meall 

 (Jorm, Sgurr na Caorach, etc. It reached nearly 3000 

 feet on the Slioch. 



* H. nigrescens, Willd. — Ben Eay and the Slioch. 



* H. ANGLICUM, Fr. — Common on the mountains, and in 

 the ravines in sub-alpine districts. Var. longibracteatum, 

 Hanb. — Loch Broom side near Ullapool, and Beallach na bo. 



""" H. IRICL'M, Fr. — Apparently rare or local, and only 



