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drying the bog in which it formerly grew. No actual 

 habitat now known." This seems to ignore the W. 

 Sutherland station recorded in Journ. Bot. (1885), p. 311. 



The place of growth in E. Ross has been described in 

 various waj^s and under various names. The record in 

 English Botany, Suppl. 2747 (1832), is not correct. The 

 first record is given hy Dr. Murray in his Northern Flora 

 (1836), p. 17, as follows: — " Mr. G. Campbell Smith, Land- 

 surveyor at Banff, . . . first observed Fin(/iiicula alpina, 

 in June 1831, upon Rosehaugh property (part of the Black 

 Isle of Ross, lying between the Friths of Beauly and 

 Cromarty), which he was then surveying for Sir James 

 W. Mackenzie." Murray further remarks (p. 17) that 

 '' Mr. Smith communicated his specimens to Mr. Gordon, 

 Minister of Birnie, who visited the quarter mentioned 

 during the same summer ; and, subsequently, other dis- 

 cerning botanists had an opportunit}^ of inspecting the 

 plants, gathered either by Mr. Gordon or Mr. Smith, but 

 these not being closely examined were merely regarded 

 as P. lusitanica from a new and remarkable habitat- 

 The credit of ascertaining this to be a new Pinguicula is 

 due to Mr. H. C. Watson, who decided it to be P. alpina 

 of Linnaeus." 



Other records are : — '■ Near Loch Avoch "' (G. Gordon) ; 

 " Radder\^ Moss in Rosemarkie parish " (Dr. Nicholson) ; 

 " Boo^s of Auchterflow and Shannon on the Rosehaugh 

 property " (G. Gordon) ; " Munlochy Bay and Invergordon 

 in the Black Isle " (Anderson's Guide). 



In Watson's herbarium at Kew are specimens labelled 

 " Strath of Auchterflow, parish of Avoch, along with 

 Thalicfruon alpinuin, on a moor surrounded by cornfields 

 behind Rosehaugh House " (W. A. Stables, 1843) ; " Marsh 

 on the Millbuie Ridge" (W. A. Stables, 1845). 



In Watson's Outlines of the Distribution of British 

 Plants (1832), p. 234, the following note is given under 

 P. alpina : — " In a sheet of P. lusitanica in Sir J. E. Smith's 

 herbarium is one marked by Sir J. E. Smith ' Isle of Skye, 

 1794 — Mr. J. Mackay,' which is certainly P. alpina. Mr. 

 David Don told me that he well remembers liis father 

 finding a Pinguicula in Aberdeenshire or Angus which he 

 considered P. alpina, but it does not appear that he pre- 



