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"HiERACIUM SILVATICUM, Gouccn, var. TRICOLOR, W. R. 



Linton in "An Account of the British Hieracia," 1905, 

 p. 39," read Hieracium rubicundum, F. J. Hanhury, var. 

 h. BoswELLi (Linton), in " Journ. Bot.," vol. xxxi, June 

 1893, pp. 178 and 179 (a.s a species). [A similar correction 

 should be made in Spence, " Flora Orcadensis," p. 131 

 (1914).] 



In "Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.," Jul}^ 1895, p. 181, in line 3 

 from bottom of page, for " Native " read Not native. [The 

 Timothy -grass is cultivated in Orkney, and I have only 

 seen it growing in cultivated helds, or on the borders of 

 cultivated land.] 



Class I. — Dicotyledons. 



Ranunculus diversifolius, Gilib., var. h. Godronii 

 {fide J. Groves). — Mud at bottom of shallow water in a 

 small loch, 10 feet above sea-level, Tarf Loch, Swona, 28th 

 July 1914, Henry Halcro Johnston; and swamp near the 

 centre of the island, 50 feet above sea-level, Swona, 28th 

 July 1914, H. H. Johnston. Native and rare at both 

 stations. 



Ranunculus hederaceus, Linn, (name confirmed by 

 J. Groves). — Mud in bed of a small dried-up pool of water, 

 110 feet above sea-level, near Backaquoy, north of Castle 

 of Burwick, South Ronaldsay, 20th July 1914, H. H. 

 Johnston; and mud in a ditch, 10 feet above sea-level, 

 Burwick Loch (now a swamp), South Ronaldsay, 20th July 

 1914, H. H. Johnston. Native and rare at both stations. 

 See " Scot. Nat.," No. xlvii, July 1882, p. 321, where this 

 species is recorded from Papa Westray, by A. R. Duguid, 

 and Quendale in Rousay, by R. Heddle. 



Cochlear! A groenlandica, Lln7i. (fide Arthur Bennett). 

 — Short natural pasture near edge of sea cliffs, 250 feet above 

 sea-level, Black Craig, Stromness, Mainland, 26th May, 

 10th July, and 4th August 1919, H. H. Johnston. Native. 

 Common. Stem leaves stalked. Petals pale purplish- 

 white, or more rarely white, in different plants. Fruit 

 obovoid, or globose-obovoid, glabrous, wrinkled, brown ; 

 persistent style short, glabrous, brown. Confirms the 

 record of this species from Orkney in " Guide to the 

 Orkney Islands " by Rev. Charles Clouston, p. 58 (1862), 



