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are of particular interest, Potentilla alpcstris from Beinn 

 Laoghal, and Valeriana dioica, both reported by the Scottish 

 Alpine Botanical Club. A record by the same of Vicia hifca is 

 a very unlikely one, though the plant is by no means confined 

 to the sea-shore on the continent, as it usually is with us. 

 It is not a native of Scandinavia. Has some Scandinavian 

 species been mistaken for it ? I have not seen a specimen. 

 In E. Sutherland a record of Mdica nutans by the Scottish 

 Alpine Botanical Club is interesting, as Eoss has been its 

 hitherto ascertained limit. 



East Eoss has yielded my friend Mr Mennell sixteen 

 additions ; while in West Eoss Messrs Druce and Sewell 

 have sent nine species hitherto unrecorded. The group of 

 the Inner Hebrides gives records for twenty-six additional 

 species, one of Bosa ruhiginosa — " among rocks a mile or 

 more from any house. Jura," Mr P. Ewing — seems as likely 

 to be an indigenous habitat as any recorded in Scotland. 



Mr King sends seven additions to the Clyde Isles. In 

 Dumbarton Messrs Ewing and L.Watt have sent me twenty-six 

 additional records. Argyle supplies eighteen species, " Holcus 

 mollis, at 1800 feet, near Kingshouse." Eev. Mr Marshall 

 takes this plant 300 feet higher than hitherto recorded. In 

 this county my friends Messrs Hanbury and ^Marshall gathered 

 a series of the Backhousian Hawk weeds in splendid condition, 

 and finer specimens than I have seen before. 



From East Inverness comes a very interesting find by Mr 

 Druce, " shores of the Beauly Eirth," of Garex salina, var. 

 Kattegatcnsis (Fr.), the same as the Caithness plant, with 

 two others. 



West Inverness, four species — notably Ccra^tium ardicum, 

 Lange, and Hieraciuni aggrcgatum. 



Forfar, five. East and Mid Perth, a few. Poa palustris 

 (Dr B. White) of much interest. 



West Perth, seventeen ; but these are mainly from Glen 

 Falloch (Eev. Mr Marshall), and some difference of opinion 

 has been expressed as to their rightful vice-county; so far 

 as Mr Watson's ideas go, they belong here. 



To Stirling Dr E. M. Buchanan and Messrs Kidston, Watt, 

 etc., have added nineteen. 



A few are added to Berwick, Lanark, Eenfrew, and Ayr. 

 Jiincus tenuis, Willd., in Eenfrew in abundance. 



