Field Notes. 73 
at an altitude of about 1400 feet. They were of rather small 
dimensions, having a maximum length of ;45-inch (= 190 p). 
They do not agree very strictly with the Scottish specimens, 
differing chiefly in the fewer processes along the sides of the 
body and in the presence of numerous small rounded warts or 
tubercles between the processes. These small tubercles are 
much scattered, but cover the whole dorsal surface and upper 
parts of the sides of the body not occupied by the processes, 
diminishing in size, and ultimately disappearing towards the 
ventral region (fig. A). The five median pairs of processes, 
which form part of the double series which extends down the 
back of the animal, were not acuminate, but slightly truncate 
at the apex, and furnished with two minute spines (vzde figs. A 
and B). The cuticle of the processes was also noticed to be 
much thinner than the rest of the body-cuticle (fig. B). 
Each leg was furnished with two equal pairs of strongly- 
hooked claws, one claw of each pair being somewhat larger 
than the other (fig. C). 
The pharynx and teeth differed in no respects from the 
Scottish specimens described by Mr. James Murray. No eggs 
Were seen. 
Macrobiotus papillifer has only previously been observed from 
Loch Ness and Loch Morar in Scotland. It is closely related 
to WZ. tuberculatus Plate. 
SO 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
The montane form of Myosotis sylvatica.—Referring 
to Mr. Pickard’s Botanical and other Notes at Arncliffe in the 
December number of the ‘ Naturalist’ (pp. 425-8), the small 
montane form of MZyosotzs sylvatica therein mentioned was, | 
believe, first placed on record by myself as Phanerogamic 
Secretary to the Botanical Sect. of the Yorks. Nat. Union in 
the 1883 Report (see ‘Trans. Miscellaneous Botanical Papers,’ 
Welw, p: 204). 
This form is given in ‘Speight’s Craven Highlands’ as one 
of the noticeable plants of the Malham district, doubtless on 
the authority of the above report. I was climbing Gordale 
Scar one sunny day in June, 1883, and about half way up my 
attention was arrested by a patch of blue colour on a shelving 
bank. This I found to be a much dwarfed mass of JZyoso¢is in 
full bloom, and I at once thought of JZ. a/pestris, the true alpine of 
Mickle Fell. On examination, however, the plants proved to be 
but the montane form of JZ sy/vatica.—P. Fox Leg, Dewsbury. 
1907 March 1. 
