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not at first recognised. Last year Mr. Marshall again stayed at Tain, 

 and collected fine and typical specimens on " Sandhills near Balin- 

 tore, E. Ross, in profusion," which, though evidently the same as the 

 plant that was gathered by the railway, were growing under more 

 natural conditions ; and these specimens are undistinguishable from 

 the examples given in the Hierac. Scand. Exsicc. No. 32, and agree 

 perfectly with the description in Fries' Symbola, p. 102. I believe Mr. 

 Linton sent some of his Braemar specimens, with other plants, to 

 Mons. Arvet-Touvet in the South of France, who referred them to 

 his H. buglossoides. They do not appear to me, however, to agree 

 nearly so well with my examples of Mons. Arvet-Touvet's plant as 

 with those of H. onosmoides Fr., and I feel little doubt that the 

 Braemar, Skye,and Tain specimens, though differing slightly, belong 

 to one and the same species, and are all referable to Fries' plant ; it 

 is needless to add that plants collected from the North of Scotland 

 are more likely to have affinity with Scandinavian types than with 

 those occurring in the South of France.* 



H. Friesii Htn. var. basifolium Lindeb. — A strongly-marked 

 variety or form having at the base of the stem a rosette of rather 

 large leaves, which are abruptly reduced upwards to quite small 

 proportions, and become few and far between towards the apex. 

 I have only gathered it myself by the Dee at Braemar. Remarkably 

 fine and typical specimens have been distributed by the Messrs. 

 Linton from the Clova Valley. These were marked by Dr. Lin de- 

 berg, "verum! " I have also specimens from Kincraig, Inverness, 

 collected by Mr. A. Somerville; and from Spey Side, near Kingussie, 

 collected by Mr. W. F. Miller. My experience of five years' culti- 

 vation of this form is that it tends to revert to the type, and to 

 develop larger leaves in its upper portion. 



H. reticulatum Lindeb. — This species was first gathered by Mr. 



Marshall and myself at Reay, Caithness, in July, 1886, but the 



plants were only in bud. A month later, the Eev. W. R. Linton 



gathered it in the same locality in flower, but unfortunately did not 



dry his specimens very carefully ; all of these were the sandhill 



form of the plant, on which Dr. Lindeberg wrote, "Verisimile 



H. reticulatum vel species nova." The following year I gathered 



it again in fine condition on some low cliffs to the west of Reay 



Bay ; these specimens differed somewhat from the sandhill form, 

 and were a^ain sent, fn n* T.inrinKavrr •mi+'U/Mit ^i^^/i/i ±^ v*;o 



I ought perhaps to mention that I have not got the Braemar form growing 

 in my garden, and am therefore as yet unable to compare specimens from both 

 localities when cultivated under similar conditions. Should such cultivation 

 P ^° V ! ™ cer . tam d *fferentiating characters are permanent, it may be well to 

 adopt Mons. Arvet-Touvet's name for the Braemar plant, though I should 

 certainly be inclined to follow Nyman in placing it as a variety under H. 

 onosmoides *r. That Fries mtended his species to include the South European 

 form is shown by the fact that in his Epicrisis, p. 89, he gives as a locality, 

 "In Pijrencms orientalibus (Billot!), norvegico simillimum (v. s. sp. et v. cX" 

 whilst Mons. Aryet-Touvet, in Les Hieracium des Alpes Franraises (1888), p. 72, 

 gives as a locality for his plant, » Dans les Pyrenees Orientales, Ac," and 

 omits altogether to include H. onosmoides in his work, giving the points of 

 difference between his own and Fries' species. 



