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small village of Brough. The morning was very fine, and 

 the day looked promising. It soon, however, began to rain 

 very heavily, which caused one half of the party to return 

 much sooner than was intended. Others, however, remained 

 till the afternoon ; and some went as far as Dunnet Lighthouse, 

 which stands on the most northerly point of land on the 

 mainland of Scotland. The rocks were productive of some 

 good plants. Among the plants gathered were — Artemisia 

 imlgaris, Linn. ; Coniitm maculatum, Linn., — this plant was 

 very abundant on the roadsides near Thurso ; Vaccinium Vitis 

 Idcea, Linn. ; V. Myrtillus, Linn. ; Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, 

 Spreng. ; Primula 'vulgaris, Huds. ; P. veris, Linn. ; P. 

 scoiica, Hook. ; Anagallis tenella, Linn., — abundant at St 

 John's Loch, near Dunnet ; Gentiana campestris, Linn. ; 

 Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn.; Polevionium cceruleum, Linn., — on 

 a moor in the middle of Dimnet Head. It was found by Mr 

 Potts far from any house, and it is just possible it may have 

 been an escape from a garden. The plant, however, is a native 

 of the far north, and is one of the few flowering plants found 

 in Spitzbergen, and this is just such a locality for its being 

 truly wild as any other in Britain. It was very interesting 

 to find this plant in the midst of a moor on the most 

 northerly point of land in Scotland. Lycopsis arvensis, Linn. ; 

 Digitalis ^;?«7?it7'ea, Linn. ; Veronica Anagallis, Linn. ; 

 PinguiciUa vulgaris, Linn. ; Plantago maritima, Linn. ; P. 

 coronopus, Linn. ; Salix repens, Linn. ; E7npctrum nigrum, 

 Linn. ; Orchis latifolia, Linn. ; Pris Pseud-acorus, Linn. ; 

 Juncus halticus, Willd. ; Eleocharis palustris, E. Br. ; Asplenium 

 marinum, Linn., — abundant ; Selaginella selaginoides. Gray. 



Two of our number — Dr Stuart and Captain Norman — 

 went to Sutherland by Caithness, and spent two nights at 

 Thurso on their way to join us. Whilst at Thurso they 

 visited Holburn Head, to the north-west of Thurso. On the 

 Head they saw abundance of Lychnis diurna and Primula 

 scotica, some of the plants of Primula being sessile — the var. 

 acaulis. They observed a curious form of Anthyllis vidneraria 

 in the cracks in the layers of sandstone. The plant was 

 minute in habit, the flowers being crimson outside and white- 

 coloured inside. This variety is mentioned in a pamphlet 

 on Caithness by Canon Pox. They also gathered Jmicvs 

 halticus on the Thurso river. 



