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20th August 1920, Mr. John Scott, Northmanse, North 

 Ronaldsay, informed me that he first saw the Skull-cap 

 growing on the seashore, at Garsow Wick, outside the 

 stone wall that sui'rounds the island of North Ronaldsay, 

 about the year 18(S0; but that since then it has dis- 

 appeared from the seashore outside the wall, and now 

 grows inside the wall among a long artificial heap of 

 stones. Confirms the records of this species from Orkney 

 in "Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.," No. 08, p. 251 (October 1908); 

 and Spence, "Flora Orcadensis," p. 55 (1914). 



Plantago lanceolata, Linn., var. decumbens, Lange 

 (jide G. C. Druce). — Shell-sandy links at seashore, 10 feet 

 above sea-level, Links of Skaill, Sandwick, Mainland, 

 4th August 1920, H. H. Johnston. Native. Common. 

 Dr. G. C. Druce informs me that this is the same plant 

 as that erroneously recorded as " Plantago media " in 

 Edmondston's "Flora of Shetland." p. 17 (1845). 



Chenopodmm hyhriduni, Linn, {fide G. C. Druce). — 

 Gravelly ground round filter beds, 200 feet above sea- 

 level. Kirkwall Waterworks Reservoir, near Hatston, 

 Saint Ola, Mainland, Dth August 1920, H. H. Johnston. 

 Not native. N'^er}' rare. Plants neither in flower nor 

 fruit. 



Atkiplex laciniata, Linn. [ = A. arenaria, Woods.] 

 (fide Arthur Bennett).^ — Shell-sandy seashore, 5 feet above 

 sea-level, Backaskaill Bay, Cross, Sandaj^ 25th August 

 1920. H. H. Johnston. Native. Common. Plants in 

 full flower. Leaves green above, whitish-green beneath, 

 mealy white on both surfaces, especially the lower. 

 Flowers with an offensive odour. Perianth segments 5. 

 Stamens 5. Confirms the record of this species for 

 H. C. Watson's county No. Ill Orkney in Neill, "Tour," 

 p. 188 (1806), where it is recorded as growing on "sea- 

 shores, rarely." See " Journ. Bot.," No. xiii, p. 20 (January 

 1864), where Mr. H. C. Watson has placed this species in 

 lii.s "list of o.mittei) species"; "Annals Scot. Nat. 

 Hist.," Xo. 80, p. 101, where the record for Orkney is 

 shown as "111(?)'; and Spence. "Flora Orcadensis." 

 p. 61 (1914). 



Afri/flex palida, Linn., \ar. d. bracteafa, Westerluiid 

 ( lidf G. C. Druce). — Gravelly ground . round filter beds. 



