110 NOTES ON HIGHLAND PLANTS. 
purple; the petals _ —— (Hornbeck’s dictionary does not give 
*‘ tueformigt,’’ so in doubt about the exact meaning). 
Lange places ppienerser: as his first var. under ‘+ vulgare,” and 
this comes next. P. dunensis Dum. i s given under P. oxyptera by 
Nyman, and the Tain form is referable rea, a pe ete than to 
vulgaris, as a segregate. Prof. Lange asserts in a foot-note that 
‘« Polygala is neuter,’ and that tine orm the iittesne ‘isetiee as 
used by Linné cannot be retained. In point of fact, it is a Latin 
feminine word, pt by te iy an ae for the woArdyaaroy 
of Dioscorides ; uch w 8 moavyaaa is to be found in Liddell 
and Scott.—* Ps ser eS Woke Oykell Bridge (107). 
Silene acaulis L., grows plentifully on limestone cliffs, three 
miles from Inchna damph, between 600 and 800 feet 
*Cerastium tetrandrum Curt. Tarbat Ness (106). — C. arcticum 
Lange! = fine, at 2200 feet, on Ben More of Assynt; C. al- 
pinum was not seen there. 
Stellaria media Cyr., var. neglecta (Weihe). Ditch-side, Inchna- 
damph. 
jaa aria norvegica Gunn. We re-discovered this in the West 
Sutherland locality, where it was first found “ the late Mr. Gray 
n 1887, but had to use great care in takin ecimens. One fine 
ith in a dry 
original station. Though very near the Ribblehead d. gothica, 
it is thoroughly distinct from A. ciliata. Identical with the 
Shetland norvegica ! 
Sagina maritima Don. Tarbat Ness; the ordinary upright form 
of the southern coasts = 8. stricta Fr. 
*Lepigonum salinum Fr., var. medium (Fr.). Coast near Tain | 
(106).—*L. marginatum Koch. Coast near Tain (106). 
Montia fontana L., var. minor Gmel. Inchnadamph, Lochinver, 
and Tain.—Var. rivularis Gmel. Inchnadamph. 
*Geranium pusillum Burm. f. Coast between Tarbat Ness and 
Rockfield, in fruit oe ; @ northward extension of its British 
range ; looking native. 
Trifolium pratense Ls. A curious prostrate form, analogous to 
. arvense var. maritimum Towns., occurs in shell-sand near Tain 
“Inthyllis Vulneraria L., var. *Dillenii (Schultz), grows sparingly 
at Tarbat Ness, and abundantly in pers sand near Tain 
Lotus corniculatus L, A hairy state, towards var. Wises: was 
found aed Rockfield ; another, with fiw ers twice as large as usual, 
growing on lime: stone near jm chnadamph, is just Mr. Beeby’s 
Shetland « - “fori grandiflora 
-sebees us Hypoglottis L. abounds about Tarbat Ness, and in 
shell-sand near Tain 
Vicia Rast Roth. Tain (106).—V. Cracea L. The pretty 
form incana Thuill. (var.) was met with on low cliffs between Tarbat 
ess and Rockfield; it pet re be a state of exposed situations. 
Prunus Padus is certainly native aed Inchnadamph ; 
there is no personal author ity for 108 in Watson. — *P. communis 
Huds. Native, between Rosehall and Oykell Bridge (107). 
Rubus — Anders. Glen Lochay.—R. jissus Lindl. Rail- 
_ way bank near Crianlarich.—R, periiated Wh. & N. (teste Focke). 
