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served specimens" — W. Cliristi). In Hooker's Brit. Flora, 

 ed. 3 (1835), p. 10, there is the following footnote: — "Dr. 

 Graham says, ' I understand there are two specimens in 

 the herbarium of Sir J. E. Smith upon the same paper with 

 P. lusifanica; marked as sent by Mr. James Mackay, in 

 September 1794, from the Isle of Skye.' " 



Dr. Williams in Prod. Fl. Brit. (1909), p. 351, remarks: 

 " I have examined these two specimens in Sir J. E. 

 Smith's herbarium at Burlington House. They seem to 

 me rightly placed in P. liisitanica, and they certainly 

 do not match a specimen of P. alpina from Swartz on 

 the next sheet. " 



Mr. J. T. Johnstone of the Edinburgh Botanical Society 

 informs me that the latest specimens they have knowledge 

 of from the Black Isle are dated 1863, and I have speci- 

 mens gathered in that year by Mr. G. N. Stables. Mrs. 

 Wedgewood and Mr. C E. Salmon visited the Ross station 

 (enclosure behind Rosehaugh House) in 1916. The inn- 

 keeper told Mrs. Wedgewood that the plant had gradually 

 disappeared. In the spring of that year only two or three 

 weak plants had come up and had withered away very 

 soon. The enclosure is now grown over by Galluna and 

 Erica Teh'alix and planted with conifers. Pinguicula 

 alpina thus seems to have disappeared from the Black Isle, 

 where it has been known to exist since 1831. 



In the north of Europe the species is rare in Sweden, in 

 Gotland, and in S. Lapland. It occurs in five provinces of 

 Russian Lapland and two of Finnish Lapland ; N. Norway : 

 Faroes (?) (not given by Ostenfeld) ; Iceland (?), Stefansson's 

 Flora Islands does not name it. 



P. GRANDIFLORA, Lam. 



In the Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xxiii (1908), p. 251, Canon 

 Spence Ross states that the above species occurs in the 

 Black Isle near Fortrose and Ferintosh by Dingwall. But 

 are these specimens not large-flowered P. vulgaris 1 



P. grand i flora, regarded as a native in Cork and Kerry, 

 has established itself in Cornwall, where, according to 

 Davey, Fl. Cornw. (1919), p. 345, it occurs abundantly, 

 having spread from plants originally planted by Dr. 

 Ralfs on Tremethick Moor. 



