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dark violet veins, and a yellow base ; spur of lower petal 

 longer than the calycine appendages, dull purple. Anther- 

 spurs filiform, with subclavate extremities. Stigma pale 

 greenish-yellow. The colour of the flowers at the other 

 four stations was the same as that of those at Sunnybrae, 

 and at all the stations the yelloiv colour of the corolla was 

 confined to the ham of the lower j^etal. 



Viola variata, Jordan, " Pugillus," p. 2G (fide W. G. 

 Travis). — Corn-held, Hurkisgarth, Sandwick, Mainland, 

 4th August 1886, H. H. Johnston (the same specimen was 

 identified as " Viola tricolor, Linn.," by the late Dr. J. T. I. 

 B. Boswell) ; and plants growing among Viola Lloydii, 

 Jordan, and *Ulex europaeus, Linn., at the side of a road 

 between an oat-field and a grass-field, 190 feet above sea- 

 level, Sunnybrae, Saint Ola, Mainland, 16th August 1921, 

 H. H. Johnston. Not native. A weed of cultivation. 

 Rare at Sunnybrae. Plants in full flower at both stations. 

 The colour of the flowers is similar to that of Viola 

 Lloydii, J ordsbu, growing at the same station. See " Bot. 

 Exch. Club Report for 1886," p. 14.5 (1887). 



Group III. — saxatiles. 



Viola lepida, Jordan, " Pugillus," p. 28 {fide W. G. 

 Travis). — Marshy hillside, 460 feet above sea-level. Hill of 

 Miffia, Strom ness. Mainland, 18th June 1920, H. H. 

 Johnston. Not native. One plant only seen b}'' me grow- 

 ing on the marshy hillside, within quarter of a mile of the 

 highest cultivated land in Orkney, which on the Hill of 

 Miffia reaches an elevation of 500 feet above sea-leveL 

 Plant in flower. 



Group V. — curtisieae. 



Viola pesneaui, E. G. Baker in " Journ. Bot," vol.xxxix, 

 p. 9 (1901) {fide W. G. Travis). — Plants growing among 

 Psamma arenaria, R. et S., and mosses, in shell-sandy 

 links near the seashore, 10-15 feet above sea-level. Sty 

 Wick, Lady, Sanday, 29th May 1920 and i7tli May 1921, 

 11. II. Johnston ; plants growing among Psamma arenaria, 

 Ji. et >S., in shell-sandy links near the seashore, 15 feet 

 above sea-level, Quoy Ness, Cross, Sanday, 25th August 

 1920, H. 11. Johnston; and plants growing among Psamma 



