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exact station at Braemar from which this plant was originally 
described by Townsend under the name of E. paludosa (“Journ. 
Bot.” XXIX, p. 161 (1891). It is the only species of Euphrasia 
growing in this spot, so that any variation that may be observed 
among the specimens can hardly be attributed to hybridity. As 
stated by Townsend it also occurs in other wet places around 
Braemar, in some of which I collected finer examples than any 
of those from the locus classicus. The plants now sent agi ee with 
the original exsiccata issued by Townsend from Braemar (F. 
Schultz. Herb. Norm. 2873 as E. paludosa). In describing E. 
paludosa Townsend contrasts it with E. gracilis Fr., and makes no 
reference to E. minima Jacq , although he was certainly well 
acquainted with minima in the Alps. His contrasting characters 
with E. gracilis I think hold good, except his statement of the 
shortness of the lower lip of the corolla. This is clearly longer 
than the upper lip in his original plate, and is certainly so in all 
the examples fresh and dried that I have seen, unless the corolla 
has become shrivelled in drying. I can, indeed, find no real differ- 
ence, except in colour, between the corollas of E. scottica and E. 
gracilis , and when plants of the latter are young or unbranched, 
they seem to me difficult to distinguish, albeit I quite believe 
that the two plants, while closely related, are distinct. Wettstein, 
in his Monograph, p. 170 (1896) adopts Townsend’s species with 
a necessary change of name, as E. scottica. His diagnosis is a 
translation of Townsend’s description of E. paludosa, and at that 
time he evidently had no independent knowledge of the plant. 
He contrasts it, however, not with E. gracilis, but with E. minima, 
from which he states it differs in the capsule. In “Journ. Bot” 
XXXV, p. 426 (1897) Townsend expresses doubts respecting the 
capsule characters of E. scottica, and points out that the plant 
differs from E. minima by its narrower, cuneate-based leaves. I 
think this is a constant difference, and that the corolla of E. 
minima, which is nearly always more or less yellow, is smaller, 
and actually has an appreciably shorter lower lip E. gracilis 
seems best separated from E. scottica by its slenderer, stiffer and 
more branched habit, its narrower, more glabrous and purpur- 
escent foliage, its more highly coloured corolla and generally 
narrower capsules. The name of this plant was written Euphrasia 
scottica by Wettstein, but E. scoticci by Townsend. — H. W. 
Pugsley. Excellent E. scotica . — W. H. Pearsall. Yes, evidently 
gathered on the classic spot where Townsend first collected the 
plant, and described and figured it, under the name paludosa, in 
“Journ. Bot.” 1891, 161.--C.E.S. 
