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were Erigeron alpinum (L), Salix reticulata (L), Potentilla 
maculata (Pourr.), Yiola amoena (Syme), and a very curious 
woolly stalked and leaved variety of Lychnis diurna 
(Sibth^, with deep crimson flowers. Altogether the spot 
was a veritable Alpine garden, its beauty intensified by the 
blue of Myosotis alpestris (Sm.), which grew in profusion. 
Close by this spot I plucked two specimens of a Triticum, 
which I could not determine, but placed them in my 
Herbarium unnamed. Last year Dr. Buchanan White 
entered into some correspondence with me relative to the 
Flora of Perthshire, which he had undertaken, and I 
accordingly went through the whole of my Herbarium for 
localities, and in due course arrived at this Triticum, and 
forwarded him one of the two specimens, at the same time 
comparing the other with the Agropyra and Tritica of my 
general Herbarium. I very soon perceived that it in every 
way coincided with specimens of T. violaceum (Hornemann) 
I possessed, collected by Eeutermann and S. N. C. Kind- 
berg, the former labelled “ Lapponia occidentalis, in montosis 
ad Alten, July, 1879,” the latter “ Norvegia Dovre, Kongs- 
wold 900 metr., 1884.” This I told Dr. White, who had in 
the meantime forwarded Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., the 
other specimen for his opinion. He in due time com- 
pared it with the Tritica of the Kew Herbarium, including 
Don’s specimen of T. alpinum from Ben Lawers, a plant 
which had been lost and expunged from the British lists, 
and came to the same conclusion as mine. A few months 
ago I visited the British Museum Herbarium with the same 
object in view, and again my feelings of certainty were 
strengthened by the inspection of Don’s specimen there 
preserved, though it is but a poor one; and also by the sight 
of their Triticum violaceum series. 
Nyman Conspectus Flor^ Europese, p. 841, places T. viola- 
ceum (Hornemam) between T. repens and caninum. He gives 
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