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cularia, having the same dense texture, with stiff hairs in 

 abundance. 



Mr. R. Heddle reported Geratophyllum from "Loch of 

 Ayre, Kirbister." But Col. H. H. Johnston has a specimen 

 from Heddle, and it proves to be Utricularia vulgaris, 

 Linn., which Miss Boswell reported for Orkney in Watson's 

 Top. Botany, i, p. 319 (1874). 



Ulex nanus, Forster in Caithness. 

 By Arthur Bennett, A.L.S. 



(Read 8tli February 1917.) 



Lately (14th October 1916) Mr. G. Lillie of Lybster sent 

 me specimens of Ulex nanus from Ben Alisky, a hill in the 

 parish of Halkirk, about 12 miles north of Berriedale. 

 The hill is 1142 feet high, and the If. nanus occurred at 

 about 800 feet. The specimens are very dwarf, the young 

 stems very hairy with white shaggy hairs. Beneath the 

 primary spines are here and there unifoliate leaves, exactly 

 the Same as I possess in seedlings of U. europaeus; these 

 are above the trifoliate leaves (which succeed the cotyle- 

 donary ones), and number nine before the spines commence. 



There are no roads near this hill ; " the nearest house is 

 Dallawillan Lodge, about a mile from it." 



Mr. G. Lillie writes that his niece and nephew (Miss A. 

 Lillie and Mr. W. Lillie of Watten Manse) found the plant 

 on an excursion to Morven, and " although the general 

 eifect of the hill is rather barren, it had, among other plants, 

 Vaccinuim Vitis-Idaea, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Listera 

 cordata, Lycopodium alpinum, and Solidago Virga-aurea." 



This locality is the most northern in Europe, being about 

 58° 20' N. lat. I know of no station in Europe north of 

 50° N. lat. 



The onlj^ Scottish stations I have seen specimens from 

 are Kirkcudbright (Professor Oliver) and Dumfries (Mr. 

 Fingland). 



