576 72. CONIFERS. 
since been gathered in Scotland, and was perhaps originally sent 
thence by Mr. Dickson, who supplied Mr. Crowe with several new 
Scottish species”; Eng. flo. iv. 180. “ It is most improbable that 
this plant, which is truly alpine on the Continent, growing in 
Switzerland only at great elevations, should be even naturalised on 
the sands of Barrie, where Drummond met with it. The Norfolk 
station is entirely hypothetical, and equally unlikely”; Brit. flo. 
ed. 8, p. 413. “ This is an alpine species, which cannot have been 
native, if indeed it were ever found in any of the localities men- 
tioned”; Eng. bot. viii. 263. As to Middlesex, see page 260 of 
the recent Flora of that county, by Trimen & Dyer. 
Salia retusa, Linn. 
Province - 15. Ben Lawers; Dickson, in Linn. Trans. 
Error. Misnomer. S. procumbens ‘“ was originally communicated 
to Withering ‘by Mr. Griffith, to whom Townson sent roots from 
Scotland under the name of retusa’, and first noticed in one of the 
earlier editions of his work; it is also inserted in Hull’s British 
Flora in 1799”; Brit. flo. ed. 8. In the English Flora, the Salia 
retusa of Dickson (Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 228) was made synonymous 
with the typical Myrsinites. 
Salia serpyllifolia, Scop. Var. of S. retusa, Linn. 
Province - 15. Perthshire, fide Fries. 
Ambiguity. ‘Fries states that beautiful specimens of the var. 
serpyllifolia, collected by Mr. Winch in Breadalbane, are preserved 
in Horneman’s herbarium. This must be a mistake; Mr. Winch’s 
retusa is that of Withering, or procumbens of Forbes, and is widely 
different from the true one”; Brit. flo. ed. 8, p. 412. 
Salix Grahami, Baker in Jour. Bot. June, 1867. 
Province - 17. North-west Sutherland; Macnab, Graham. 
Ambiguity. Edinburgh Botanic Garden; Macnab! Professor 
Graham pointed out this willow to me in the Edinburgh Garden, 
in presence of Mr. Macnab, assuring me that it was herbacea when 
brought from Sutherland. At the time I was a very young 
botanist, and the Professor’s assurance, uncontradicted by Macnab, 
impressed me decidedly in distrust of the segregate species of 
willow, then accepted with little hesitation by most of our botanists. 
Now, we find Dr. Hooker placing this willow of Graham under 
Myrsinites, in the Student’s Flora. I have it in leaf only. 
72. ConIFERs. 
Pinus pinaster, Ait. 
Province - 2. Bournemouth, South Hants. 
Alien, planted. ‘1 am indebted to Dr. Falls of Bournemouth, for 
fresh specimens of the plant, which is completely naturalized in 
that neighbourhood”; Eng. bot. viii. 271. It would have been 
