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Melilotus officinalis, Willd. [ = 31. altissima, Thuill.] — 

 Gravelly ground round filter beds, 260 feet above sea-level, 

 Kirkwall Waterworks Reservoir, near Hatston, Saint Ola, 

 Mainland, 31st August 1916, H. H. Jobnston. Not native. 

 Common. Petals yellow. See Spence, " Flora Orcadensis," 

 p. 19 (1914), where this species is recorded from Quoy- 

 belloch in Deerness, and Saint Ola, both in Mainland, and 

 "introduced in both cases." Dr. J. S. Flett reported it 

 from Orkney in 1890. 



Lotus major, Scop. [ = L. uliginosus, Schkuhr.] {fide 

 Arthur Bennett). — Pasture near a turnip field, 120 feet 

 above sea-level, junction of the Kirkwall-Stromness Road 

 and Firth-Harray Road, Binscarth, Firth, Mainland, 5th 

 August 1914, H. H. Johnston. Not native. Rare. The 

 fruit did not ripen in 1914, the pods being still unripe on 

 6th October 1914. 



*Lupinus nootkatensis, Bonn. — Heath, 200 feet above 

 sea-level, Swanbister, Orphir, Mainland, 6tli June and 

 17th August 1914, H. H. Johnston; heathery hillside, 

 180 feet above sea-level, Grindally, Midland Hill, Orphir, 

 Mainland, 9th June and 15th August 1914, H. H. Johnston; 

 heath, 140 feet above sea-level, Hillside, Stromness, Main- 

 land, 31st May and 11th July 1919, H. H. Johnston; 

 heath, 230 feet above sea-level, Redland Hill, Stromness, 

 Mainland, 15th August 1919, H. H. Johnston ; grassy 

 banks at burnside, 60 feet above sea-level, Beaquoy, 

 Birsay, Mainland, 9th July 1919, H. H. Johnston; and 

 heath, 120 feet above sea-level, Hobbister, Stenness, Main- 

 land, 15th July and 18th August 1919, H. H. Johnston. 

 Naturalised and common at all these six stations, where 

 the Lupines are exterminating the native plants. See 

 "Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," vol. xvi, p. 166 (1884); " Bot. 

 Exch. Club Report for 1886," p. 146 (1887); "Scot. Nat," 

 No. xvii, new series, July 1887, p. 129; "Annals Scot. 

 Nat. Hist.," July 1895, p. 176; and iUd., No. 26, April 

 1898, p. 105, in all of which books this species is errone- 

 ously recorded as "LuPiNUS perennis, Linn." See also 

 "Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," vol. xxvi, p. 208 (1914); and 

 Spence, " Flora Orcadensis," p. 16 (1914). 



Alchemilla minor, Jluds. suhsp. filicaulis, lAndherg 

 (fide E. F. Linton) [==A. vulgaris, /Ann., var. c. fili- 



