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Lamium album, Linn. — Artificial pasture, 20 feet above 

 sea-level, farm-steadino- of the glebe of the Established 

 Church Manse, Holm, Mainland, 12th May 1921 (plants 

 not in flower or fruit), and 22nd June 1921 (plants in full 

 flower), H. H. Johnston. Not native. Rare. Corolla 

 pale yellowish-white. Confirms the record of this species 

 from Orkney in the Rev. Dr. Barry's " History of the 

 Orkney Islands," ed. ii, p. 283 (1808). See "Journ. Bot," 

 No. xiii, p. 15 (January 1864); "Scot. Nat.," No. xlviii, 

 p. 373 (October 1882); Watson, "Top. Bot.," ed. ii, p. 314 

 (1883); "Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.," No. 30, p. 100 (April 

 1899); and Spence, "Flora Orcadensis," p. 56 (1914). 



Myosotis collina, Hoflin. (fide Arthur Bennett). — Turf 

 top of stone wall and grassy floor of old Monastery in 

 ruins, 30 feet above sea-level, Eynhallow, 24th August 

 1921, H. H. Johnston. Not native. Common at the 

 Monastery. Plants in full flower and sparingly in fruit. 

 Stem clothed with straight spreading hairs. Calyx clothed 

 with spreading hairs, hooked at the apex. Corolla small, 

 with a blue limb and yellow throat. Confirms the record 

 of this species from Orkney by the late Mr. Magnus Spence 

 in his "Flora Orcadensis," p. 58 (1914). 



Lysimachia punctata, Linn, (fide Arthur Bennett). — 

 Grassy bank at side of a mill pond, 80 feet above sea-level. 

 Gyre, Orphir, Mainland, 28th July 1921, H. H. Johnston. 

 Not native. Escape from a garden. Rare. Plants in full 

 flower. Confirms Dr. G. Claridge Druce's record of this 

 species from Orkney (" near Stenness ") in " Bot. Exch. Club 

 Secretary's Report for 1920," p. 135 (September 1921). I 

 first saw this plant growing wild in Orkney, at a burnside, 

 at Newhouse, Clestrain, Orphir, Mainland, on 21st August 

 1914, on which date Mr. Peter Goudie informed me that, 

 several years previously, plants of this species had been 

 transpl«,nted from his garden at Newhouse to the burnside, 

 where they have continued to grow, multiply, and spread. 



Atriplex glabriuscula, Edmondston, var. b. virescens, 

 Moss et Wilmott in " The Cambridge British Flora," vol. ii, 

 p. 178(1914) (fide A. J. Wilmott). [ = Atriplex babing- 

 TONii, Woods, var. b. virescens, Lange, " Haanb. Danske 

 FL," p. 712 (1864) ; and " Lond. Cat.," ed. x (1908) ; but not 

 Atriplex glabriuscula, Edmondston, var. a. babingtoni, 



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