212 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxviii. 



Arctium Newbouldii, Arthur Bennett, in " The Journal 

 of Botany," vol. xxxvii. p. 342 (1899) ; and in " The Irish 

 Naturalist," vol. xii. pp. 289 and 290 (1903). 



Sandy banks at the seashore, Linksness, Hoy, 1st 

 September 1875 and 31st August 1883, H. H. Johnston; 

 roadside, near the Black Crag, Stromness, Mainland, 23rd 

 August 1880, H. H. Johnston ; shell-sandy pasture, Skaill, 

 Sandwick, Mainland, 4th August 1886, H. H. Johnston; 

 very rare on sandy links at the seashore, 20 feet above sea- 

 level, Links of Melsetter, Waas, Hoy, 11th August 1913; 

 and shell-sandy roadside, 15 feet above sea-level, The Links, 

 Westray, 26th August 1913, H. H. Johnston. Native at 

 all these stations. See under "Arctium nemorosum, 

 Lejeune," in " Scot. Nat.," No. xlviii., October 1882, p. 367 ; 

 Watson, " Top. Bot.," ed. ii., 1883, p. 240, in which the record 

 of this species from Orkney is queried thus, "111 Orkney ? " ; 

 "Bot. Exch. Club Report," 1883, p. 90; and "Annals Scot. 

 Nat. Hist.," July 1895, p. 178 ; and under "Arctium New- 

 bouldii, Arthur Bennett," in Bennett, " Suppl. Top. Bot., 

 ed. ii.," 1905, p. 51, in which the record from '111 Orkney " 

 refers to the specimens collected by me at Linksness, Hoy, 

 on 31st August 1883. 



Note. — Mr. A. H. Evans, in his article on " The British 

 Species of Arctium," in " The Journal of Botany," vol. Ii., 

 April 1913, pp. 113-118, states that the "Arctium nemor- 

 osum " of British authors is merely a subvariety of A. 

 VULGARE, A. H. Evans, "with comparatively sessile heads 

 at the ends of the branchlets and apparently no other 

 constant feature," to which he has given the name subvar. 

 pycnocephalum, A. H. Evans. It is not the "Arctium 

 nemorosum, Lejeune," the description and photograph of 

 which, Mr. Evans states, " seem to be conclusive as to its 

 being A. minus, Bernh." According to Mr. Evans, Arctium 

 vulgare, A. H. Evans, subvar. pycnocephalum, A. H. 

 Evans, is that form which is usual in Scotland, extending 

 from the Border northwards to Orkney and Shetland, while 

 typical A. vulgare, A. H. Evans ( = A. intermedium, 

 Lange, and A. pubens, Babington, " Manual of British 

 Botany," ninth edition, 1904, p. 217), Mr. Evans states he 

 has not found north of Haddingtonshire and the Isle of 

 May. 



