Mr. C. C. Babington on suine species of Epilobium. .'513 



base, leaves oblong blunt narrowed below not acuminate stalked, 

 ujiper leaves lanceolate, buds nodding, sepals oblong blunt, seeds 

 obovate pointed below a])iculate. 



E. anagallidifbliuni. Lam. Diet. ii. 376. t. 2/8. f. 3 ; Griseb. I. c. 8.53. 



E. alj)inum, Grcn.et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 5 7" ; Reichenb. Fl. exsicc. J 00 1 , 



Stem filiform, mostly simple, with two slightly raised lines, 

 usually 3-4 inches long; or prostrate, branched, densely leafy, 

 rooting. Leaves resembling those of E. alpinum, glabrous or 

 downy. Flowers pale reddish. Capsules like those of E. al- 

 pinum, glabrous or downy. Seeds brown, rounded at the top, but 

 with a minute point formed by a slight prolongation of the testa : 

 there appears to be a farrow down the middle of the flat side. 



It inhabits the lofty mountains of Scotland. My specimens 

 are from jNIorne and Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire ; Clova, Forfar- 

 shire; Ben Vorlich, Dumbartonshire. In Smith's Herbarium 

 there are specimens from Ben Lomond, Stirlingshire ; Craig 

 Chailliach and Ben Lavvers, Perthshire. 



E. alpinum (Linn.) ; barren stems short their upper leaves closely 

 placed, flowering stem erect from a short rooting base, leaves oval 

 or oblong blunt narrowed below not acuminate, upper leaves lan- 

 ceolate, buds nodding, sepals linear-lanceolate acute, seeds lan- 

 ceolatc-obovate pointed below apiculate. 



E. alpinum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1. 348 ; Eng. Bot. 2001 ; Fries, Herb. 

 Norm. viii. 44. 



Stem filiform, simple, w^ith two slightly raised lines, usually 

 3-4 inches long. Leaves pale green. Flowers pale. Capsules 

 relatively smaller than those of E. alsinifolium, but resembling 

 them. Seeds rather pale, bluntly rounded at the top, but with 

 a minute central point formed by a slight prolongation of the 

 testa, with a keel along the middle of the flat side; but the 

 keel in this plant and the furrow in E. anagallidifolium is not 

 ascertained. 



It inhabits the lofty mountains of Scotland. All the British 

 specimens that I have seen belong to the smaller of the two 

 forms distributed by Fries ; they are from Ben AVyvis, Ross- 

 shire; Drumonchter, Inverness-shire; Ben na Buird, Aberdeen- 

 shire ; Clova, Forfarshire; Ben Lawers, Perthshire. 



E. alsinifolium (Vill.) ; stoles (yellowish) with small roundish distant 

 scales, stem erect from a long rooting base, leaves ovate-acuminate 

 repund-dentute shortly stalked, buds nodding, sepals linear-oblong, 

 seeds subfusiform. 



E. alsinifolium, Fill. Dauph. ii. 511 ; Deakin's Florig. Brit. f. 626. 



E. origanifolium, Reichenb. Fl. exsicc. 77^- 



E. alpinum, Fries, Herb. Norm. v. 41. 



Stem usually simple, rather thick, with two raised lines, 3-12 



