104 REPORT—1868. 
Epilobium anagallidifolium. Euphorbia peplus. 
alsinifolium, Ulnus montana. 
Circeea alpina. Fagus sylvatica. 
Saxifraga nivalis. Habenaria chlorantha. 
Sanicula europa. Malaxis paludosa. 
Apium graveolens. Juncus compressus. 
Hgopodium podograria. Gerardi. 
Galium uliginosum. —— trifidus. 
Hieracium anglicum. triglumis. 
— iricum. Scirpus lacustris. 
Carduus nutans. maritimus. 
Vaccinium vitis-idzea. Carex pilulifera. 
oxycoccus. Avena pratensis. 
Pyrola secunda. Poa nemoralis. 
Fraxinus excelsioyr. Cistopteris fragilis. 
Veronica scutellata. Polystichum lonchitis. 
montana. aculeatum. 
Galeopsis ladanum. Botrychium lunaria. 
Stachys betonica. Lycopodium alpinum. 
Atriplex deltoidea. Pilularia globulifera. 
Rumex conglomeratus. 
Besides these two lists 120 species from the Hebrides have never been recorded ; 
while 51 species are recorded from the Hebrides which either do not grow in Skye, 
or, what is much more probable, were overlooked by the author. 
Ribes spicatum, Robson, with densely tomentose leaves, especially on the under 
surface, was discovered first at Uig, and then in large quantities on the cliffs 
about Dunvegan Head. 
Any botanist with a month to spare would be yet amply repaid in further 
investigating the flora of this island; the more southern portion called the Sleat 
was hardly examined, and as it is quite different in its geological formation to the 
rest of Skye, a large number of species will in all probability be found, as yet un- 
known to the subprovince. 
On the Discovery of Buxbaumia aphylla near London. 
By M. A. Lawson, Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford. 
One day towards the end of April last during an excursion to Virginia Water, 
the author found on the freshly upturned clearings of a ditch, skirting a pine-wood, 
six specimens of this curious and interesting little moss. Although recorded from 
many parts of Scotland, it is but the third time it has been found in England. 
The first to find it in Great Britain was the late Sir William Hooker, who, when 
he was almost a boy, discovered it on some stumps of trees while shooting in 
Sprowston Woods in the neighbourhood of Norwich. Justly elated with this 
piece of good fortune, he gave himself up (he had thought little of botany before) 
to the study of plants. What, then, do we owe to this insignificant little moss ? 
The third locality was Sawley Moor in Yorkshire, and both here and at Sprowston 
it has been found only once. 
On Type Variation and Polymorphism in their relation to Mr. Darwin’s 
Theory of the Origin of Species. By Buntamin T. Lowne. 
The author considered the absence of any great departure from type directly 
opposed to any considerable modification haying taken place by selection, that the 
simple absence of connecting links between different groups was in itself very diffi- 
cult to explain, although perhaps the imperfection of geological record might fairly 
be urged in explanation, yet that the difficulty is vastly increased when we re- 
member that it such forms ever existed, they have left no diverging descendants. 
Jf such a complex organ as the eye had been formed by natural selection, its 
identity of type and structure throughout the Vertebrata is inexplicable ; whilst 
such forms as Talpa, Spalax, and Chrysochlorus do not represent connecting links in 
