166 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 
landica should be found on the N.H. coast of Caithness, and perhaps 
sewhere as well. 
Viola Curtis Forster. Apparently always the var. Mackait ; 
aor different-looking plant from that of our southern and eas 
“Cordes arcticum Lange. The discovery - ripe seeds in one 
of the specimens collected in the Cairngorms, in 1885, has set at 
rest the doubt whether this name should stand. The S. om = een 
plant looks very different from the Shetland form, kindly communi- 
cated by Mr. Beeby; it grows in dense prostrate ‘tufts of a “lighter 
green, and with leaves mostly narrow-lanceolate, subacute. 
Sagina maritima Don. A minute form, from Keiss Links ( 109), 
Melvich (108), seems i eedinte estat the # fe and var. 
maritima Koch, of which it has the silky pubescence. It is not 
ikely that this variety will be found, if searched for 
View Cracea L. A dwarf maritime state, with fleshy leaves, 
and flowers of the most brilliant blue, was gathered on cliffs about 
Potentilla maculata Pour. Dr. Lange so names a-plant abundant 
on the Little Craigindal (92), Herr Murbeck calls it P. verna 5 ve 
but we do not know in what sense he uses the name. The small 
flowers—with a b: ight basal spot—and leaves had encouraged 
a hope that it might prove ¢ an addition to our flora. In appearance 
it differs considerably from the ordinary state : f maculata, being of 
smaller habit, and growing in open grassy gro 
t Rosa a Sabini Woods. A handsome white- iawsted plant, of — 
a good-sized patch occurs among the wresr acca W. of the ra 
this or is placed here by Mr. J. G. Baker.— + R. hibernica Sm. 
is seem 
ssia palustris Li, 3 only an inch high on wet sands 
at Resi Litter 
Epilobium palustre L. Ofa specimen from Loch Winless og: 
Mr. Beeby wri “Caithness plant somewhat like = Shetland 
form ; which ve ‘however, acs rably larger flower 
solid Virgaurea L., var. cambrica (Huds.). Cliffs at rs 
(108) S. Aberdee so seemed the usual form above, 
angustifolia Gaud. belies 40 “at 
Matricaria inodora Ly. A ime form from Dunnet Links 
(109) was sent ve Mr. Beeby for his opinion. He writes: ‘I expect 
that salina and pheocephala pass pe each other, and that yours is 
aes! inermedint I could not name your a unless I had 
types the other forms ‘especially salina). y Shetland pheo- 
taphale” he the flowers one full inch more in mats (by actual 
nieasurement) ena! your Tae its ray-flowers are only half as 
