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apart from the other. Owing to the exposure to the full sun-light, 

 some of the foliage is rather reddened. The plants flowered this 

 summer (1885). Whether they are native or introduced, there 

 is a variety of opinion. The pine trees planted here were 

 brought on ponies' backs from Braemar, and. it is possible the 

 Linnaea plants may have come here as seedlings in the soil, or as 

 packing. From the size of the patches they must have stood 

 for a very considerable period. The foliage is more luxuriant 

 and differs somewhat in form from the Mellerstane plants, as if 

 from a different stock. It was imagined by some that they 

 might be North American plants introduced from a nursery; 

 but this is not the case, as Canadian plants, for which I am 

 indebted to Mr Boyd of Faldonside, have peculiarities of their 

 own. Mr Thomas Darling, Berwick, obliged me with flowering 

 examples and young shoots of Linneea from the wood of Castle 

 Grant, Strath-spey, two of which had double flowers, for com- 

 parison. The result of the examination was as follows : — 



1. Mellerstane Form. Leaves small, rounded, slightly incised or 

 notched, rarely twice on one side of the out-line, fore-lobe not prominent, 

 not pointed ; palish green, smoothish ; leaves not crowded on the shoots. 



2. Strath-Spey Form. Leaves of flowering shoots like No. 1 ; of young 

 shoots ovate, closely resembling No. 4, but not quite so luxuriant or so 

 pointed at the apex. 



3. Canadian Form. With a more crowded and coarser foliage, the 

 veins more prominent both on the upper and inferior surface ; many of 

 the leaves broader, almost reniform, out-line much cut by the notches, of 

 which there are three on each side ; the front-lobe often not so long as 

 the apices of the foremost segment, not pointed ; in other instances there 

 are more ovate leaves, but still strongly incised, and blunt ; dark coloured. 



4. LoNGFORMACUS FoBM. Foliage larger than No. 1 ; but of the same 

 smooth character ; mostly ovate ; sparingly distributed on the shoots ; 

 triply incised on each side, but not specially marked on the out-line j 

 except in the rounder leaves. Apical lobe distinctly prominent, pointed. 

 Colour, except where exposed, same as No. 1. Some of the forms of the 

 leaves resemble those in the figures of Linnaeus, Flora Suecica, p. 219. 

 Editio secunda, Stockholm, 1755 5 and of the Flora Lapponica, Editio 

 altera, Plate xii ; but both are more marked in the incisures. 



Trientalis EuROPiEA. As a Lammermoor plant this was 

 long ago noticed in a communication from Lady John Scott, in 

 the Club's Proceedings, vol. vi., p. 117. It has recently been 

 gathered by Mr H. H. Craw of West Foulden, in a plantation 



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