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ARENARIA, R. et S., ill shell-saiid}^ links near the seashore, 

 10 feet above sea-level, Backaskaill Bay, Cross, Sanday, 

 16tli May 1921, H. H. Johnston. Native, common, and 

 plants in full flower at all these three stations. A new 

 record for this species for H. G. Watson's county No. Ill 

 Orkney. The following notes were made by me from 

 living plants at Sty Wick, on 17th May 1921 : — Subterranean 

 perennating stems many, wiry, branched, turning upwards 

 and bearing foliage-leaves, and flowers. Two upper petals 

 uniformly violet ; two lateral petals purplish-blue, with 

 dark violet lines ; lower petal purplish-blue, with dark 

 violet lines, and a yellow base. Anther-spurs long, filiform. 

 The colour of the flowers at Quoy Ness and Backaskaill 

 Bay was the same as that of those at Sty Wick. This 

 pretty-flowered and truly native species is an interesting 

 addition to the flora of Orkney. 



Silene infiata, Sm. \_ = Silene cueubalus, Wibel, and 

 Silene latifolia, Rendle et Britten] {fide Arthur Bennett). — 

 Grassy border of an oat-field, 130 feet above sea-level, 

 Kierfiold, Sandwick, Mainland, 6th August 1921, H. H. 

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

 Plants in full flower. Calyx inflated, dull purplish-green. 

 Petals white. Styles 3, white. Plants in ripe fruit on 

 4th October 1921. Removes "[111]" from among the 

 " supposed errors " in Watson, " Top. Bot.," ed. ii, p. 64 

 (1883). In the Rev. Dr. Barry's " History of the Orkney 

 Islands," ed. ii, p. 281 (1808), " Cucubalus, Behen" [=^the 

 old name of Silene infiata, Sm.] is mentioned, but the Rev. 

 George Low and Rev. Dr. Barry have confounded SiLENE 

 MARITIMA, With., with this species, as is explained by Mr. 

 Patrick Neill in his "Tour," p. 186, footnote || (1806), 

 under " Silene maritima ||." See " Journ. Bot.," No. xiii, 

 p. 13 (January 1864), where the " V should be removed 

 from " Silene inflata?"and ibid., p. 18, where Mr. H. C. 

 Watson states, " I can only guess here that 8. nutans of 

 Low intended the typical S. infiata, apart from 8. mari- 

 tima.'' In the Rev. Dr. Barry's " History of the Orkney 

 Islands," ed. ii, p. 281 (1808), the following record occurs : — 

 " Silene Nutans. Nottingham catch-iiy. In a meadow 

 of Binaskart." Confirms the record of this species from 

 Orkney (" near Lynn, Kirkwall "), by Dr. A. R. Duguid in 



