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in 1885, and in the " Botanical Exchange Club Report for 

 1885," p. 133 (1886), the late Mr. F. Townsend remarks, 

 " Stunted form of E. nemorosa.''' This name is probably 

 an error of identification, because, with reference to other 

 specimens of Euplirasla collected by me at Skaill, Sand- 

 wick, Mainland, on 19th August 1881, and by me and 

 Mr. W. I. Fortescue at Linksness, Hoy, on 20th August 

 1885, on all of which the late Mr. F. Townsend remarked, 

 " Robust coast form of E. nemerosa, H. Mart. ; flowers 

 unusually large,"" the late Rev. E. S. Marshall wrote as 

 follows, on 16th October 1913: — "These are all, I believe, 

 E. borealis, Townsend, certainly not E. nemerosa. At that 

 time I do not think that Mr. Townsend had yet described 

 borealis." I have asked Dr. W. A. Irvine Fortescue to send 

 me specimens of his Moul Head Euphrasia, and, if received, 

 I shall send them to Mr. Cedric Bucknall for identification. 



Rumex conspersus, Hartm., is recorded for county 

 No. Ill Orkney, on Dr. J. T. I. B. Bos well's authority, 

 in H. C. Watson's " Topographical Botany," ed. ii, p. 358 

 (1883) ; but in Dr. Bos well's manuscript catalogue of plants 

 seen by him in Orkney (copied by me on 11th January 

 1881), he has entered a "?" after both the name of this 

 species and after the name of the station for it at " Scapa," 

 together with the following note : — " B. saw a plant at 

 Scapa excessively like this, but can't be quite sure." (" B." 

 stands for Boswell.) Dr. Boswell paid his last visit to 

 Orkney in 1880, so that his record for this species in 

 Orkney is still doubtful, and requires confirmation. 



On page 57, line 1 at top of page, for " var. granulatus " 

 read var. trigranulatus. 



With reference to " Betula (:)liitinosa,¥v. — -Orkney. Syme 

 in Top. Bot., 372," there is only one kind of native Birch in 

 Orkney, and the following synonyms all refer to the same 

 plant, viz. : — Betula alba, Linn., var. b. glutinosa, of " The 

 London Catalogue of British Plants," ed. vii (1874) ; 

 B. (jlutinosa, Fr., ibid., ed. viii (1886); B. puhescens, Ehrh., 

 ibid., ed. ix (1895); B. tomentosa, Reith. et Abel, ibid., ed. x 

 (1908); and B. alba, Linn., of Babington's "Manual of 

 British Botany," ed. ix, p. 388 (1904), under which last 

 name the Orkney Birch is recorded in Magnus Spence's 

 " Flora Orcadensis," p. 65 (1914). 



