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have given rise to the record of the Dianthm as a plant of Vaila 
Island. Both of these Vaila records certainly require confirmation. 
In all a good number of new county records were made, and an 
interesting Carex and Potmnogeton were gathered, neither of which 
is yet fully determined. The following abbreviations are used 
D. = District of Dunrossness. 
W. = District of Walls. 
X' = Not recorded for the county in To^). Bot., Ed. 
II., or in Bennett's Additional Recordi<y 
unless with some form of query. 
X Batrachium Baudotii. — D. Abundant in the north end 
of the Loch of Spiggie, close to the sea ; sparingly in other parts 
of the loch, and in Brue and Hillwell Lochs. Mostly in the 
earlier stages of growth, with copious flowers, and submerged 
leaves, but no floating leaves or fruit ; a few plants were found in 
very shallow pools, with plenty of ripe fruit and floating leaves, 
but with the submerged leaves mostly decayed. 
X B. trichophyllum.— W. Stony bottom of Kirkiegarth Loch, 
rather frequent. 
X B. hederaceum Dum. — D. In a ditch at Skelberry, and in a 
good many other places in the southern part of the district ; not 
seen north of Levenwick. 
X Ranunculus Steveni. — This is generally commoner than 
R. acris ( Boroeanus ) in the Islands. When growing on dry ground 
it is a remarkably hairy, almost hispid plant, with comparatively 
few stout stems, and a strong creeping rhizome ; when growing 
beside streams, etc., the plant is glabrid, and produces innumerable 
slender stems from the densely interlacing rhizomes. This latter 
state grows in large masses, and difl'ers much in appearance from 
the dry-ground plant. Cultivation of the two states indicates that 
the differences between them are due to situation alone. The so- 
called " E. acris var. pumilus " belongs to this species. I first 
gathered it near Roeness Voe in 1886, when it was so named. 
As, however, it was obvious that it did not belong to R. acris, I 
have deferred recording it until further attention had been paid to 
the Shetland species. I doubt much whether it is entitled to 
rank as a variety of R. Steveni, and am more inclined to think 
it an alpine state of the type — an extreme state, in fact, of 
