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The Scottish Naturalist. 



in. Orkney Isles. 



Potamogeton flabellatus, W. R. Linton, 1886 ! 



112. Shetland Isles. 



(Recorded by Mr. Beeby, in Scot. Nat., 1890, pp. 212-17.) 

 Drosera anglica, confirmed. 

 Lotus corniculatus, forma grandinora. 

 Rosa canina, var. dumalis. 



„ var. subcristata. 

 Hieracium Schmidtii Tausch. 

 Hypochaeris radicata. 

 Oxyria reniformis. 

 Populus tremula. 



Polygonum viviparum, var. alpinum Wahl. 

 Linaria vulgaris t 

 Phalaris Canariensis t 



Mr. Beeby has found in Shetland (Scot. Nat., 1890, p. 217) a 

 Potamogeton that seems referable to P. Wolfga?igii of Dr. Kihlman. 

 Unfortunately Dr. Kihlman has named this plant after Wolfgang 

 on the supposition that P. gracilis Fries, (Nov. Plor. Suec. Ed. 2, 

 1828), was an earlier name than P. gracilis Wolfgang, (Roemer 

 Schulz. Syst. Veg. Mant. 3., 1827). Dr. Kihlman tells me 

 that there are two specimens in the Helsingfors herbarium of 

 Wolfgang's plant, communicated by the latter author himself, and 

 that his own Wolfgangii is founded on these specimens. I have 

 tried to induce Dr. Kihlman to transfer the name Wolfgangii to 

 the plant of Fries, but without success. Anyhow, Wolfgang's 

 name of gracilis must supersede Kihlman's Wolfgangii, according 

 to the law of priority. 



Primula Scotica. Mr. Evans informs me that the "Primula Scotica " 

 to which I referred in the last issue of this Journal (p. 238) as erroneously 

 reported " practically extirpated " from a marsh near Edinburgh, is 

 doubtlessly P. farinosa, which grows, or grew, near West Linton, and that 

 there is reason to attribute its practical extirpation to the action of local 

 collectors of plants.— J. W. H. T. 



