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stopped " with croup. " It cuts up the phlegm and frees 

 the passages ahnost instantaneously," and is equally 

 effective in " hooping cough "). Fishworms (" an ointment 

 of fishworms simmered in linseed oil till they crisp and the 

 liquid applied is very powerful in cases of rheumatism"). 



The mineral kingdom supplies quicklime, caustic potash, 

 ammonia, sal ammoniac, verdigris, alum, chalk, magnesia, 

 rock salt, copperas, saleratus, sulphur, borax. 



While our author was a Botanical Physician, he was not 

 bisfoted. 



Additions to the Flora of Orkney, as recorded in 

 Watson's "Topographical Botany," Second Edition 

 (1883). By Colonel H. H. Johnston, C.B., C.B.E., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



(Read 10th June 1920.) 



This paper forms a continuation of two papers on the 

 same subject, one of whicli I read before the Scottish 

 Natural History Society on 4th April 1895, and which was 

 published in " The Annals of Scottish Natural History," 

 July 1895, and the other before the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh on 15th January 1914, and which was published 

 in the Society's "Transactions," vol. xxvi, pp. 207-217 

 (1914). Most of the plants mentioned in this paper were 

 collected by me during the years 1914, 1916, and 1919. 



Before and after the publication of the second edition of 

 Watson's "Topographical Botany," in 1883, several of the 

 plants mentioned in the following list have been recorded 

 from Orkney by me and other botanists ; but, as the value 

 of botanical records is greatly enhanced by the possession 

 of authentic specimens, I have included in this list the 

 names of all specimens in my herbarium, which are either 

 additional to or confirm doubtful records of the plants 

 recorded from County No. Ill Orkney in the second 

 edition of the above-mentioned book. 



In the case of those plants which have already been 

 recorded from Orkney, references are given in the following 

 list, under each species and variety, to the books in which 



