496 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
247 dts. *Lepidium alyssoides, a. Gray. Ainer. bor. 
[Tweedside]. Miss Ida Hayward, in lit. 
247 ter. L. APETALUM, Willd. Amer. bor. [Tweedside]. 
Miss Ida Hayward, in lit. 
252 ter. *Iberis intermedia, Guersent. Gallia [Edinburgh]. 
‘ Ann. Sc. Nat. Hist.’ 43, 1910. J. Fraser. 
256 bis. IsATis aleppica. Scop. var. pamphylica, Boiss. 
Oriens [Edinb.]. ‘Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.’ 43, 1910. J. Fraser. 
281 b. Reseda alba, L., ^var. suffruticulosa (L.). Eur. 
[Bucks, &c.] G. Claridge Druce. 
284 A R. lutea, L., *var. laxa, Lange. Eur. [Edinb.]. J. 
Fraser. 
294^. Viola Riviniana, Reichb., *var. diversa, Gregory. 
During a visit to the South of Scotland (Galashiels, Selkirksh.), 
in April, 1910, my attention was arrested by a violet which was 
quite new to me. Clusters of tiny flowers, variously coloured, — 
from almost white to reddish-violet, the spurs also diversified in 
tint, many of them greenish — appeared on the hill-sides, scarcely 
exceeding in height the turf among which they grew. At that 
stage their appearance gave the impression of their belonging to 
the acaulescent series of violets. On closer examination they were 
seen to be distinctly with characters suggesting — about 
equally — V. silvestris and V. Riviniana.^ though much smaller than 
either. From this humble start in life they developed, until by 
the end of May — a month later — one involuntarily exclaimed “ Ah ! 
Viola Riviniana I" Not quite, however, even then ! A parvenu, 
perhaps, but a fairly modest one, possessing smaller leaves, less 
staring, square-shaped blossoms than its congener, the opulent V. 
Riviniana, A summer’s searching failed to reveal any other violet 
in that part of Scotland, When I spoke of it later to Dr. Moss, 
who knew it well, he produced W. B. Crump’s excellent flora of 
Halifax, where the same violet, after having posed as V. canina 
alternately with V. Riviniana^ has now crystallized into shape 
under the latter name. Borealis seemed a suitable varietal appella- 
tion, until the same plant turned up from various more southerly 
