350 CORRECTIONS IN THE SHETLAND FLORA. 
5. Mid-Arctic Zone, at an elevation where Azalea procumbens, Salix 
herbacea, and Carex rigida are found. 
Next, as to the errors of nomenclature. Not having seen the set of 
specimens in the British Museum, I can only suggest that some com- 
petent botanist there should ascertain how the facts stand, and correct 
accordingly. r. Tate informs us that he was only four weeks in 
hetland, and that botanical investigation was unavoidably a secondary 
object. Under such circumstances, it was not to be expected that his 
collections could be ample, or the specimens always in their best state. 
The species in my set of them are mostly represented by a single small 
plant or fragment, or even by a leaf or two without flowers or fruit ; so 
that positive determination is not always facile, if possible, and some 
The first name given is that of Mr. Tate’s label, the suggested correc- 
tion follows. 
. Ranunculus repens, Bressa.—This is a very pubescent state of 
. acris. (But true R. repens is likewise in the collection, labell 
from Out Skerries, collected by Mr. Peach.) 
Viola Riviniana, Buness, Unst. —Apparently V. flavicornis, of 
Smith, which is a small state of the species described as F. canina 
in Babington’s ‘Manual.’ (In England, V. Riviniana is much 
the more frequent of the two other subspecies now jointly named 
V. sylvatica, and quite distinct from the V. canina of Bab. Man.) 
. Cerastium viscosum, Burravoe, Yell, and Haroldswick, Unst.— 
due are C. vulgatum, otherwise known as C. glomeratum. (The 
rue C. viscosum, otherwise named C. £riviale, is also in the col- 
= labelled from Lerwick.) 
a canina, var., Burrafirth, Unst.—No flowers or fruit on this 
scrap, the pubescent leaves of which look more like those of R. 
villosa, or some other of the R. mollis group. 
- Gnaphalium norvegicum, Burrafirth.—This is G. sylvaticum in its 
ordinary form, except in being very short or dwarfed, as is the 
case with most of the other plants, 
. Hieracium crocatum, Burrafirth.—Not so ; being one of the phyllo- 
podous group. I hesitate to name a single weakly specimen in this 
difficult genus. 
T. Myosotis collina and M. versicolor, both from Haroldswick, and 
both labelled interrogatively. The larger example is JM. arvensis, 
the smaller one may be M. versicolor. 
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