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The Scottish Naturalist. 



species gathered in 1886 remain to be reported on. Of these, 

 one is certainly distinct. 



Vaccinium Vitis-Idsea L. — Abundant on the tops of Hoo 

 Field and Bonxie Hill (800-960 ft.), near Cunnings! >urgh. Recorded 

 elsewhere in Shetland only from Ronas Hill (Christie). 



Veronica officinalis L. — The form with truncate, not notched, 

 capsules occurred in plenty on rocks on Hoo Field. But on the 

 very same plants the withered flower-stalks of the previous year 

 bore deeply-notched capsules, indicating that the variation is due 

 to some merely temporary cause. 



% V. Anagallis L. — By the Asta Burn, Scalloway. This 

 practically confirms the Tingwall locality mentioned by Ed- 

 mondston. 



V. Beccabunga L. — Tingwall, as recorded by Edmondston. 

 A minute form on the stony shore of the Loch. 



Mentha. — The only species hitherto on record is the intro- 

 duced Mentha viridis. I found a plant on the stony shore of 

 Tingwall Loch, and traced it up a burn-side some distance beyond 

 cultivation. It appears, therefore, to be wild, and is probably 

 a form of M. hirsuta or M. sativa ; but so late as the middle of 

 September the more forward plants showed only slight. indications 

 of flowering at some later date. I have it in cultivation. 



Plantago major L. var. intermedia (Gilib.) — This is the 

 usual form of stony loch-sides, &c, and is apparently much more 

 common in the islands than the typical plant. 



Polygonum aviculare L. — Three forms of this plant have 

 been noted, viz., var. agrestinum (Jord.), in cornfields about 

 Scalloway, Tingwall, &c, and also at Cunningsburgh, on the east 

 coast ; — var. vulgatum Syme, by roadsides and in waste ground, 

 Scalloway; — and var. littorale (Link) on sandy shore at Cunnings- 

 burgh. Various forms occur on the sea-shores, most of which 

 seem to be maritime states of the two first-named varieties. Mr. 

 Ar. Bennett concurs in referring the Cunningsburgh plant to var. 

 littorale. 



P. Persicaria L. — Stony shore of Tingwall Loch ; stony 

 coast at Easter QuarfT ; and a handsome cornfield form at 4ith 

 Voe. It is apparently scarce. 



[P. Hydropiper L. — " Fields and waste places, frequent." 

 (Edmondston's Flora) I have not detected it. In Mr. Fortescue's 

 Orkney list it appears only as " reported by Lowe."] 



