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the flora of Scotland. The plants that fall under this head are 

 Meconopsis cambrica Vig., in Midlothian ; Sedum reflexum L., on 

 a wall near Elgin, "disappeared through repairs; not native;" 

 Silybum Marianum Gaertn., on rocks near Tarbetness Lighthouse; 

 Asperugo procumbens L., near Balnahuish on the Dornoch Firth; 

 Atropa Belladonna L., at Renlop Abbey, near Elgin, " by extrac- 

 tion, on account of the accidents it had caused," and " near 

 Ganlude ; " Hyoscyamns niger, near Avoch, on the Moray Firth. 



5. Records probably, or evidently, founded on erroneous 

 identifications. 



Lactuca alpina Benth., is most unlikely to have occurred, even 

 "abnormally, on the Coreen Hills at about 700 feet;" and the 

 record, to deserve insertion, should have been verified by a speci- 

 men from the actual plant. It appears a more probable explana- 

 tion that a plant of Chicory (which sometimes occurs as a 

 " casual " in Aberdeenshire), had been mistaken for and recorded 

 as L. alpina. 



"Primula scotica Hook. Marsh near Edinburgh, Pentland 

 Hills; practically extirpated," is most clearly due to error, as P. 

 scotica is not a marsh plant, and certainly is not a plant of the 

 South of Scotland. It would be idle even to conjecture what has 

 given origin to so evident an error. 



There are a few plants noted in the Reports that do not fall 

 clearly under any of the groups into which we have divided the 

 others, and with regard to which, if the record is in each case 

 correct, the cause of disappearance is not obvious; e.g., " Agri- 

 monia Eupatovia L., becoming very scarce in Glen Urquhart ; " 

 and " Vaccinium Oxycoccos L., formerly on a piece of mossy land 

 on the uplands north of Mealfourvouny, a hill of Old Red Sand- 

 stone conglomerata, above 3000 feet." 



In addition to the quotations already given from the Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall's letter, the following notes on plants mentioned in this 

 Report should be quoted : — " Lych?iis alpina L., in many hundreds 

 in Little Culrannoch in July, 1888 ! Oxytropis campestris, D.C. 

 Plenty in Glen Fiagh, July 1888, very easy to get; dozens of seed- 

 lings at the base of the rocks ; deer browze off the flowers, where 

 they can reach them. Lactuca alpina L. If found ' abnormally ' 

 is it worth making a fuss about ? Plenty seen on Lochnagar in 

 1886 ! and (inaccessible) in Corrie Cander in 1887 (Hanbury and 

 Lintons)." 



