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should be said that it quite resembled a S. say in aides 
with smaller flowers, and the most obvious thing was 
that the petals were shorter (and blunter) than in typi- 
cal saginoides , even in fully open and normally develop- 
ed flowers. See fig. 1 and 2. 
I regret that Mr. Druce has by a lapsus calami • 
confounded the descriptions af these two plants, point- 
ing out (Report III: I. p. 15), that the new species 
(»scotica») has larger flowers and petals longer than 
the calyx, although lie has examined the same plant as 
the other members of the. party on Ben Lawers. Mr. 
Druce has been kind enough to show me his specimens 
and has this year sent me living plants from his gar- 
den at Oxford, so that I am quite sure that his speci- 
mens are identical with mine and have very small, 
roundish petals; see my fig. 2, c. I have also seen a 
note in his herbarium concerning the size of the ripe 
capsule which he quite correctly describes as but little- 
exceeding the calyx, and this is exactly the case with 
the plant in question, while S. saginoides has a much 
more protuding capsule, twice as long as the sepals. 
See my fig. 4. 
I have also had the pleasure of obtaining the loan 
of the samples collected on Ben Lawers by Dr. Osten- 
feld, so that I have been able to assure myself that we 
all have in view the same plant, and from Ben Lawers 
alone I have had for examination altogether about 50 
dried specimens. 
When I came back to Sweden, I compared my 
samples of the mysterious Sagina with the S. saginoides 
in the Natural History Museum, first with the collec- 
tions of Central Europe, then with the Scandinavian 
ones. In both cases 1 was surprised to recognize the 
plant from Ben Lawers in several specimens from dif- 
ferent countries, particularly from the northern provin- 
ces of Sweden and Norway. In the dried state it is 
