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* Taraxacum officinale, AVeb. — Common. Xar. iKilastrc, 

 DC, not unfreqiient. 



* SoNCHUS GLEitACEUS, L. — Loch CaiTon side, Kin- 

 lochewe. 



* S. ASi'ER, All. — A very prickly form grew on the shingle 

 at Ullapool, it is probably the var. jnnnatijichis, Peterm. 



* S. ARVENSis, L. — Eare, and probably only a colonist. 

 Dornie and Dundonuell. 



Lobelia Dortmanna, L. — See " Topographical Botany." 

 Not rare in the lochs, as Achall, Clare, etc. 



(?Wahlenbergia hedekacea, Ileichb. — (Jiven as a 

 doubtful native in Dixon's list. "Was it rightly named ?) 



( Campanula rapuxculoides, L. — Included in Dixon's 

 list.) 



* C. ROTUNDiFOLLi, L. — Very rare, and local. Kintail, 

 V. s. Xot seen about Ullapool, Strathcarron, or Applecross. 



'^ Vaccinium Oxycoccos, L. — Very rare, moorland above 

 Loch Long. The cranberry is given in Dixon's list. 



* V. ViTis-iD.EA, L. — Xot uncommon, as on the lower 

 slopes of Slioch, Ben More, Braemore, etc. This is the 

 " cranberry " of northern Scotland. 



V. ULIGINOSUM, L. — Loch Broom mountains (Lightfoot). 

 On Sgurr Fhuaran, An Teallach, in good flower, Ben Eay, 

 Meall Gorm, and probably occurs on most of the higher 

 mountains. 



* V, Myrtillus, L. — Xot uncommon. 

 Arctostaphylos alpina, Spreng. — " To the south of 



Little Loch Broom, and between that lake and Loch Mari, 

 Coygach, liennaish " (Lightfoot). 1 have found this plant 

 in many situations between 1600 and 2000 feet on the 

 rather bare and exposed shoulders of mountains, as on Ben 

 Eay, An Teallach, and on the mountains on the northern 

 side of Strathcarron, where it was very profuse on one 

 ridge at about 2000 feet, but quite burnt up by the hot 

 sun of the abnormal year 1893; it was associated with 

 Loiseleuria procunibcns. 



*A. UvA-URSi, Spreug. — Lieuthgoch, Ben Eay, Slioch. 

 An Teallach, etc, Var. angusiifolia, a form with much 

 narrower leaves, occurred on An Teallach. 



* Calluna Erica, DC, — Too abundant ; ground covered 

 with heather or bracken aftbrd little variety of plants to 



