38 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxiv 



(1883). See "Scot. Nat.," No. xlviii, October 1882, p. 374; 

 and Spence, "Flora Orcadensis," p. 58 (1914). 



Syinphytum peregrinum, Ledeb. (fide G. C. Druce). — 

 Grassy ditch sides between two cultivated fields, 50 feet 

 above sea-level, Orgill, Hoy, 16th June 1914, H. H. Johnston. 

 Not native. Introduced hy the late Mr. J. G. Moodie 

 Heddle sometime between 1880 and 1890. Common at 

 the corner of one field along a narrow strip fifty yards 

 long, and still growing there on 11th May 1920. This 

 species is recorded from Hoy and Bu, Burray, under 

 the erroneous name of " S. officinale (Linn.), var. 

 patens (Sibth.)," in Spence, " Flora Orcadensis," p. 57 

 (1914). 



Utricularia neglecta, Lehm. [ = U. majou, Sch7nidel'] 

 (fide Arthur Bennett). — Mud at bottom of shallow water 

 in a loch, 8 feet above sea-level, Loch of Grsemeshall, 

 Holm, Mainland, 25th August 1916, H. H. Johnston. 

 Native. Common among the stems of SciRPUS Taber- 

 naemontani, Gviel., at the west side of the loch. Luxuriant 

 plants neither in flower nor fruit. A new record for this 

 species for H. C. Watson's county No. Ill Orkney. See 

 " Bot. Exchange Club Secretary's Report for 1916," p. 

 497 (1917). 



Salix repens, Linn., var. e. parvifolia (Sm.) $ (fide 

 E. F. Linton). — Heatli, 50 feet above sea-level, Swona, 28th 

 July 1914, H. H. Johnston. Native. Common. Confirms 

 the record of this variety from Orkney (" Westray, 1905"), 

 in Spence, "Flora Orcadensis," p. 67 (1914), 



Class XL — Monocotyledons. 

 Sparganium afftne, Schmizl., var. h. microcephalum, 

 Neuni. (fide Arthur Bennett). — Mud at bottom of water 

 in a large pool, 80 feet above sea-level, at the junction of 

 Roonie Gill Burn with Soutli Burn, Hoy, 4th September 

 1914, H. H. Johnston. Native. Common in the pool. 

 Plants in flower and unripe fruit, but mostly the latter. 

 Confirms the record for this variety from Orkney in "Tlie 

 Scottisli Botanical Review," vol. i, p. 94 (1912); but my 

 specimens were collected at a diflerent part of lAoy from 

 tiiose collected by the late Rev. E. S. Marshall " in a pool 

 near Sandy Loch, towards Orgill,"- in July 1900, and 



