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AJUGA PYRAMIDALIS IN SCOTLAND. 
By Arruur Bennett, F.L.S. 
In last year’s Journal, p. 310, Mr. Colgan asks under what con- 
ditions, and at what elevations, the above species occurs in 
Scotland. As no one has replied to his query, I offer the following 
notes. In compiling them I am much indebted to Messrs. Miller 
and Duncan for notes on the species in the Hebrides and Suther- 
_ Taking the counties in which it occurs, and in which the 
habitats are so stated as to be available :—In Orkney it occurs at 
about 600 ft., “on the sides of a hill.” In the Outer Hebrides it 
grows among short grass about 100 ft. above sea-level on ground 
moderately dry. Another station is on the S.E. slope of one of the 
hills that occupy the peninsula at the S.W. corner of Harris, about 
50 ft. above sea-level, on roughish, moderately dry ground, 
Caithness it grows on “The Old”; this is about 1250 ft. 
altitude, but I can find no note of the exact position of the plant 
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probably from 8-400 ft. altitude. In Dumfries, ‘on 
grassy plat formed by a slip in the rocky sides of the glen, at an 
hen of about 1750 ft.” (J. T. Johnstone) in the Moffat 
istrict. 
ir J. E. Smith describes its stations as ‘ in dry pastures in 
the Highlands”; Hooker and Arnott as “ Highland pastures.” Mr. 
Bentham remarks (ed. 1), “It is never more marked than in 
recently burnt pastures”; this is the case in Sutherland, except 
that heather predominates over grass. 
Looking beyond our own country, in Norway it extends 
upwards from 3500’, 4000’, and 5000’. Sommerfelt, in his Suppl. 
Fi gives ‘in graminosis humidis inferalpinum.”’ 
Denmark, at a low elevation in the island of Bornholm, &e. («in 
high grassy p 
pastures and heaths. In Italy, «in alpine pastures in the Alps.” 
In cultivation (from Sutherland) it often shows for flower in 
the end of March, and in early seasons is in full flower by the end 
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