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SHETLAND PLANTS. 
By W. H. Bessy, F.L.S. 
The following remarks are extracted by permission from Mr. 
Beeby’s interesting paper on the Flora of Shetland published in 
the Annals of Scottish Natural History for April last, pp. 103-7. 
—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Forms oF MOonrtvIA FONTANA. 
Montia lamprosperma, Cham. [in Linnea vi. 564, 1831] Syn- 
M. rivularis auct. nonnull. (non Gmelin).—This is a new name, 
rather than a “ new British plant,” as it has been called. In his 
last article in the Botany of the Ferées (iii. a te i iripee 
following Dr. Harald Lindberg, adopts the above n place 
an on the sufficient ground that Gmelin lid not dexeribe 
the n consequence of this omission, we fu that . TU- 
Sa Gaccitte of M. probe into two forms was not quite the simple 
matter that I had Auipostd it to be; for we have, in ie hree 
distinct forms of seed which may be characterised as follo 
1. Seeds entirely covered with large coarse tubercles, and “ate 
without reticulations; black, dull or slightly shining. 
2. pels covered on thei r face with pes coarse reticulations, 
but with about me rows of m 
ee tubercles on each side of the keel, which is also 
oral tuberculate ; black and perhaps rather more 
shin ing. 
3. Seeds ural covered with fine reticulations which are a 
good deal longer and narrower than those of form 2; 
ck, or more usually dark brown or purplish brown, 
reles 
Pp 
I propose the following snrangoment of these forms; the 
be taken to ager their distribution oF comparative rarity. 
MontTIA FONTA 
ssp. minor, gone (Fl. Bad. i, 301, 1805, as species. ] 
var, a. Cp pig Fenzl ap. ‘Ledeb. [Fl. Ross. ii. 152, 
4] (syn. M. fontana, Cham. in Linnea [vi. 56 
1831. pi 1.261; m: — var. minor, Syme). 
ed form No. 1.— 
b. intermedia, Beeby, cel (syn. M. eee var. 
minor, Bab. Man.; M. rivularis, moe Seed 
o) rnwall W., Surre 
ssp. lamprosperma, Chamisso, l.c. pl. 7, fig. 2 day M. Ze se 
var. major, Bab.; M. fontana, var vularis, 
Syme). Seed fo rm No. 3.—Shetland. | 
I think there is very little aeabt that Syme’s var. rivularis is 
the same as erma, but his description of the fine 
reticulations as “ flattened tubercles” is perhaps hardly happy. 
