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procumbent rooting stems, and leaves with bristly margins ; 

 and gi'assy clitfs at seashore, 10 feet above sea-level, Head 

 of Holland, Saint Ola, Mainland, 2nd September 1916, 

 H. H. Johnston, plants mostly in unripe fruit, a few in 

 flower, with the upper surface of the leaves and persistent 

 calyx of the unripe fruits densely clothed with long white 

 hairs. Native and common at both stations. My record 

 confirms that of the late Rev. E. S. Marshall for this variety 

 from Orkney (Sandwick, Mainland), in " Journ. Bot.," vol. 

 xxxix, August 1901, p. 270. See also "Annals Scot. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 59, July 1906, p. 177; and Spence, "Flora 

 Orcadensis," p. 54 (1914), where he states that he thinks 

 he has never seen Thymus Serpyllum, Linn., in the East 

 Mainland, but the Head of Holland is in it. 



Nepeta hederacea, Trev. [ = iV^. Glechoma, Benth.] (name 

 confirmed by Arthur Bennett). — Artificial pasture in a 

 garden, 80 feet above sea-level. Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, 

 Mainland, 14th June 1919, H. H. Johnston. Not native. 

 A garden weed. Rare. Corolla bluish-purple. Confirms 

 the record of this species from Orkney by Mr. Patrick 

 Neill in his "Tour," p. 187 (1806). See "Glechoma 

 hederacea " in " Journ. Bot.," No- xiii, January 1864, p. 

 15; and Spence, "Flora Orcadensis," p. 54 (1914). 



♦Mj^osotis palustris. With. [ = M. scorpioides, Linn.] (fide 

 Arthur Bennett). — Marshy burnside, 20 feet above sea- 

 level, Skaill Burn, Sandwick, Mainland, 25th July 1919, 

 H, H. Johnston. Naturalised and common at Skaill Burn 

 beloiv a small garden, in which this species grows and from 

 which it has escaped, at the bridge where the approach 

 road to Skaill House crosses the burn. Above the garden, 

 between the bridge and the loch of Skaill, I saw no plants 

 of this species growing along the burnside ; but it is 

 common below the garden, between the bridge and the 

 sea at Skaill Bay. Myosotis palustris. With., is included 

 among the " Omitted Species " in H. C. Watson's " Florula 

 Orcadensis," published in " Journ. Bot.," No. xiii, January 

 1864, pp. 11-20. Myosotis palustris. With., var. h. 

 STRIGULOSA (Reickb.) is recorded from Orkney (Scapa, 

 Saint Ola, Mainland) by the late Dr. J. T. I. B. Boswell, 

 but not the type of the species (which is cultivated in 

 gardens in Orkney), in Watson, " Top. Bot.," ed. ii, p. 323 



