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Senecio Jacobsea L. — Abundant for a short distance along 

 the cliffs east of Scalloway. Previously seen only as a garden 

 casual. In the Scalloway locality the plant had probably come 

 from the cornfields above the cliffs ; and there is little reason to 

 regard it as indigenous, although equally " wild " with many other 

 plants which, in Shetland, are obviously entitled to no higher 

 grade than that of "colonist " or "denizen." 



Matricaria inodora. — Messrs. Grant and Bennett (Scot. Nat. 

 1888, p. 371) seem to have misunderstood my remarks concerning 

 the forms salina and phoeocephala. I wrote : " I expect that salina 

 and phoeocephala pass into each other, and that yours (i.e., Rev. E. 

 S. Marshall's, plant, from Dunnet Links, Caithness) is possibly in- 

 termediate." (Journ. Bot., 1887, p. 166). I am not in a position 

 to make the definite assertion attributed to me. My note was in- 

 tended merely as a hint, which might put a friend on the right 

 track, and was therefore scarcely worth printing. Unfortunately, 

 the misquotation, albeit no doubt unintentional, makes it neces- 

 sary to once more repeat the sentence, in order to prevent miscon- 

 ception. Dr. Lange confirms as phoeocephala a plant from E. 

 Sutherland gathered by Mr. Marshall, who informs me that Pro- 

 fessor Babington is inclined to refer the Dunnet Links plant to 

 the same form, and not to salina. 



Soiichus asper Hoffm. — Seen occasionally, to the exclusion 

 of S. oleraceus, which is said by Edmonston to be frequent. S. 

 asper was also the species seen at Stromness, Orkney, during the 

 short stoppage there. 



* Hieracium pulchellum Lindeb. — Abundant about Quey- 

 house Loch, and at the north end of the Loch of Cliff in 1886. 

 The Rev. W. R. Linton shortly afterwards gathered the plant in 

 plenty on the Burrafirth Cliffs, which are a continuation of those 

 that surround the Loch. I identified this plant as above in 1886, 

 from the plate and description in "Flora Danica Supp.;" and the 

 name has since been confirmed by Lindeberg himself thus 

 naming some of Mr. Linton's specimens that were sent him by 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury (Cf. Jour. Bot., 1888, p. 205). It is known 

 elsewhere, I believe, only from the district about Bergen, in 

 Norway. 



*H. dovrense Fries. — Common about the north end of the 

 Loch of Cliff and Burrafirth Cliffs in 1886 and 1887. Mr. 

 Hanbury identifies this plant as the above species. Two other 



