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county were recorded ; and at the north point, near Fedaland, the 

 extreme and beautiful form of Wahlenberg's variety of Polygonum 

 viviparum, described later, was met with. 



My thanks are due to those who have kindly reported on some 

 of the critical forms, and whose names appear in the following 

 pages, The usual signs are used, viz. : — 



* — believed new to Britain. 



% — not recorded for the county in Top. Bot. : Ed. II., or in 

 Bennett's Additional Records, unless with some form of query. 



Viola silvestris Reich. — In recording this plant in my first 

 paper on Shetland, it was mentioned that Herr Murbeck had 

 expressed some slight doubt as to the determination. Last year 

 I collected undoubted examples near Lerwick and elsewhere. 



t Drosera anglica Huds. — Recorded from Burravoe, Yell, 

 by Edmondston, and mentioned in Top. Bot. with a query. I 

 ound the plant, which is certainly very rare in the county, in 

 some plenty in a bog by the Rools Burn, near Collafirth. 



Lotus corniculatus L. f. grandiflora — A form with 

 remarkably large flowers, making a fine display in grassy places 

 among rocks, south of Sand Voe. 



Rosa canina L. — The following, from cliffs on the north 

 side of Roeness Voe, are named by Mr. G. Nicholson : — % R. 

 SUbcristata — edge of cliff near the head of the Voe ; — J R. 

 dumalis — cliffs a little east of the Grud Burn. 



X Pyrus AllCUparia Hook. — Syme remarks on this plant that 

 in Scotland it is seen only in ornamental plantations. It is certainly 

 wild in Shetland ; and is recorded by Edmondston from Roeness 

 Hill. I gathered it on the cliffs on both sides of Roeness Voe, 

 and about the lower part of the Grud Burn ; also on the Bergs of 

 Skelberry, near North Roe. Mr. Nicholson remarks that it 

 " seems to be the var. glabra Trautv." ; but the plant does not 

 seem to deserve a varietal name. 



Saussurea alpina, D.C. — Although somewhat frequent on 

 the stony ground about the top of Roeness Hill, the plant very rarely 

 flowers j but a single specimen was found in that condition. The 

 flower stem was under two inches in height. 



Centaurea nigra L. — I met with for the first time on the 

 top of low cliffs at Sand Voe, where it may possibly be wild, but 

 I doubt this ; it was almost certainly introduced at Edmondston's 

 Baltasound station. 



