NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 167 
numerous. It is very dwarf,—3-4 in..—and my specimens bear 
but two flowers each. Its phyllaries Tnve — edges blacker, the 
centres greener.” N.B.—The ‘var. maritima” is, when growing, a 
most distinet- looking plant, and we baat that it should be restored 
to the specific rank given it by Linneus. 
tCnicus arvensis Hofim., var. setosus Bess. Two plants were seen 
Hieracia. We hope to publish some notes on forms observed 
along the N. coasts, when an identified ; but may briefly say here 
that these appear to be Scandinavian in type , and to “e widely 
rom the forms occurring in Aberdeenshire and southwa: 
Leontodon autumnalis L., var. pratensis Koch. The ak headed 
Highland plant so nam med. by Babington does not at all closely 
resemble a an olnshire plant received from Mr. Beeby; and, as he 
points out, the term has probably been used here in tte ‘restricted a 
sense. The stalk is often pee in the Aberdeen Wasps form. 
+Armeria maritima Willd., var. planifolia Syme. Spe ns from 
Derry Cairngorm and Little Craigindal (92) appear to ‘belong here. 
Primula scotica Hoo is clear, as pointed out to u s by Mr. 
Grant, — the so- called var. hei is no more than an occasional 
state. In several cases we found it in flower, with an old flowering- 
stalk of ‘sacl character. 
tGentiana Amarella L., forma oo Lange. Keiss Links 
and Reay Links (109), in good quantity. The flowers at Keiss 
were mostly monstrosities ; those of the Reay specimens had the 
in ine 
Beeby appears to have found the case. An exceedingly curious 
form, with sda white flowers, ied reddish without; very 
unlike our southern Amarella at first glan 
Ver is Li. 
the ng (92), at about ft. 
sorier ie At about 2000 ft., by a streamlet in Glen Callater 
ipa This, after ae eeby inclined to name either 
. ha m: 
ny mo ype. 
Juncus balticus Willd. A very tall variety, with somewhat 
tortuous stems and lengthened peduncles, was found by the Thurso 
River (109). 
oe ae eee 
writes :—‘‘ The specimen of the oo Betula 
r weaidle” Tisai a. May) was returned to me through the eee a : 
Be *Sooiety. by i af ome fenpen ; aod in 
ig rs apace cnet the Betula, * intermedia Thomas,’ vith any mark 
of doubt such as Lange himself expressed in his letter, 
