1918-19.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 309 



Notes on the Flora of Caithness. 

 By A. Bennett, A.L.S. 



(Read 2ik1 October 1918.) 



Ill the Scottish Botanical Review (July 1912, 181) I 

 noticed the species Mr. Crampton had noted as additional 

 records in his Vegetation of Caithness considered in 

 relation to the Geology, 1911, published by the Com- 

 mittee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation ; 

 but did not allude further to it. It is, from the ecological 

 point of view, a most excellent piece of w^ork, and makes 

 points not noticed before in British books, and must be 

 well studied by the author of any future Flora of 

 Caithness. 



Along the east coast he gives some really extraordinary 

 assemblages of plants, as at Leabana Daione opposite 

 Ramscraigs, between Berriedale and Dunbeath in a land- 

 slip of the sandstone cliffs. He gives a list of ninety 

 plants, with Caltha palustris, Linn., having leaves 6 inches 

 across on stalks 18 inches long, Angdica sylrestris 6 ft. 

 high, and Pteris aquilina head high and difficult to enter. 

 There is a continuous dropping of water from above, 

 w^here at Ramscraigs a height of 380 ft. is given by the 

 O. Survey. 



There are still about twenty-six species that may occur 

 in the county, with records in counties and vice-counties 

 ranging from 81 to 111, there being no climatal or dis- 

 tributional reason against their occurrence. 



In the following notes I give such species that have 

 been found or recorded since my last notes appeared.^ 



Ranunculus scoticus, Marshall. — Growing with Saxi- 

 fraga Hircidus, Linn., at Loch Rhuard. \\\ G. Lillie sp. 



There are some violas I meant to record here, but I have 

 not received Dr. Drabble's names for them. 



Saxifraga dellaris, Linn. — Morven. Crampton, p. 43, 

 He remarks that this is the only place he has seen this 

 Saxifrage in. Morven seems poor in alpines, while within 



' Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., xxvii, 135, 1916-17. 



