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species of H. ee Pers. (littoralis Fr. ): so it might well be 
treated accordi ngly 
1169 2 Ganireaks -ULIGINosA Willd. poms 2 deserves to 
be etedes. as Wettatein appears to have seen Scottish specimens. 
The Nairn plant which I thought might be pri to it is, I 
now believe, only a peculiar state of G. baltica 
— PubMonaRiA OFFICINALIS L. The ilies _plant, which 
n E. W. Suffolk, has always erm to on varietally 
distinc, though I could obtain no special name for it. In culti- 
n (twelve ny or more) it remained perfectly constant. At 
last t can identify it as 8 immaculata Opiz = P.obscura Dumort. 
uy, l.c. x. 299, makes it a “race,” and gives the following 
description = distribution (outside Franco) «Se sépare du type 
Cs officina oer ar: Feualles non maculées ow trés apa 
culées, oe stivales radicales a grandes, a limbe ovale- 
ater cordé et acuminé, 2 fois plus long que large, ipndivecien: 
sensiblement plus court que e pétiole étroit, profondément 
canaliculé ; fewilles caulinaires plus grandes et plus étroites, ainsi 
que les calices fructiféres ; corolle d’un ton rougeatre plus accentué, 
rarement blanche had SS ET 5 Aire géog.—Suéde, Russie, Dane- 
werk, Belgique, Allemagne, Suisse, Autriche-Hongrie, Turquie.— 
te.2.". Our plants should therefore stand as *officinalis L. and 
b. immaculata Opi 
Micobeas scoRPIOIDES L. A name of questionable 
application, for which we should prefer to adopt M. palustris, 
Hill, followin ng tte Druce; in that case the authority for c. 
hirsuta is Bra 
1192. M. pyrenarca Pourr. According to M. Rouy L c. 335), 
with whom Nyman see this species is restricted to the 
ica, and Italy i cripti i 
distinctive character of M. pyrenaica, is peat in Perthshire 
specimens, and the nu whlas are exactly alike in both. Rouy 
takes ree seh sein habitat from Grenier & Godron, which are 
incorrect ; Wi m & Lange, Prodr, Fl. Hisp., come nearest the 
mark.” As our ers alpestris Schmidt is a Pyrenean species, 
confusion may easily have arisen ; and the southern “ pyrenaica 
will probably em to be called M. = laa which is given as a 
synonym by both Rouy and Nyma 
1195. M. counia Hoffm Under M. hispida Schlecht., a 
raves which he prefers, M . Ro ouy gives a “P Lebelit Corb. Fi. 
, p- 407; M. Lobelit ‘Godr. ap. G. et G. Fl. Fr., 2, ah 532 
(vale ‘emend, 1); M . adulterina Lebel Obs. Hy. Te —Grapp s + 
& la base; corolle blanchatre, souvent bordée atten 
pale. poe a surtout prés du littoral.” This, I ne may 
be the same as our var. Mittenii , 
1207. Cuscura Trironm Bab. The query after the census- 
