The Scottish Naturalist. 



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Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum L. — One plant in a 

 meadow near Ollaberry ; I could not find a second, the numerous 

 other "ox-eyes" in the meadow all being Matricaria inodora, 

 which frequently grows in such localities in Shetland. Mr. 

 Sandison, of Lerwick, informed me that 0. Leucanthemum 

 grows plentifully in one or two places in Unst. 



Tanacetum vulgare L. — This may be wild on the sea cliffs 

 near Bardister, but the locality is not free from suspicion. On 

 the other hand, Mr. Watson, of Mid Yell, told me that he 

 believed the plant to be wild in North Yell, where he had seen it 

 in great abundance on uncultivated ground. 



% Hypochoeris radicata L. — While driving into Lerwick I 

 detected a few plants on a dry, grassy bank, on the south side of 

 Dales Voe, growing amid a profusion of the ubiquitous Lcontodon 

 autumnalis. Although not seen previously, and certainly very 

 rare, I am disposed to think it native. 



^Hieracium Schmidtii Tausch. — Cliffs on the north side 

 of Roeness Voe, in several places ; Bergs of Skelberry, near 

 North Roe. (H. murorum of Edmondston probably.) 



" H. lasiophyllum." — Recorded from Shetland, in Top. Bot., 

 with a query ; and by Syme from " Rocks at Rona's Voe, Shetland 

 (Mr. Tate.) " — I met with a plant at Roeness Voe, in one spot 

 only, which differs from the last-named in having many more 

 black and gland-tipped hairs about the peduncle and pericline, 

 and in the glabrous tips to the ligules, etc., characters in which 

 it agrees with H. lasiophyllum Koch. As to whether it is truly 

 Koch's plant, I will report on some future occasion. 



It is noticeable that not one of our five commoner southern 

 Hieracia seems to extend to Shetland. 



Vaccinium Vitis-Idsea L. — Mr. Nicholson remarks on the 

 plant gathered on Hoo Field in 1888; — "Is, I believe, a form 

 which under cultivation is called 1 V. Vilis-Idcza, minor' and 

 retains its small leaves and compact character even when grown 

 side by side with large-growing forms under conditions which 

 should make it grow out, were it not a fixed form." The same 

 small form occurs on Roeness Hill. I have not seen flowers or 

 fruit on either this or V. uliginosum, and but a single berry on 

 V. MyrtiUus ; while both species of Arctostaphylos fruit freely. 



(Linaria vulgaris L. — Very fine on the turf wall of a crofter's 

 garden near Collafirth ; introduced.) 



