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may be referred to E. curta ; it was found on Craigga More and 
Urrisbeg near Roundstone, Co. Galway. Specimens which I have 
named E. curta, var. glabrescens Wettst., were taken on the golf- 
links at Southport and on grassy, chalky ground at Dogs Bay, Co. 
Galway. Typical E. curta was not met with. 
E. gracilis Fr. Seems to be common in Scotland and Ireland. 
Dunkeld and Ben Lawers, Perthshire; Urrisbeg, Co. Galway; 
Ballyvaghan, Co. Clare. 
E. minima Jacq. In a paper on the Flowering Plants of the 
Faeroes (Botany of the Faeroes, Vol. Ill, Copenhagen, 1907), I have 
(pp. 844-847) published my studies on the small-flowered Euphrasias 
of the Faeroes and Scotland ; from the latter country I had ample 
material at my disposal through the kindness of the late Mr. 
Townsend and the late Mr. W. H. Beeby. The main result was 
that the two Scottish species E. foulaensis Towns, and E. scotica 
Wettst. (E. paludosa Towns.) are not distinct from E. minima Jacq., 
a widely distributed alpine species, and that, consequently, both 
species have to he sunk and E. minima recorded as a British plant. 
Nevertheless we find in the later lists of British plants ( e.g ., Druce’s 
list of 1908), both the former species maintained, and further, in 
1909 E. minima was published in Journ. of Botany as a new English 
plant without any reference to its occurrence in Scotland. As I had 
drawn my conclusions from examination of dried material, I was 
very interested in finding “ E. scotica ” growing in Scotland on Ben 
Lawers, and an examination of it strengthened my belief in the 
correctness of taking it as a mere synonym of E. minima ; I am 
therefore glad to learn from Druce’s paper (New Phyt., l.c. p. 317) 
that “ Professor Wettstein confirms Professor Schroeter’s determi¬ 
nation of ‘ Euphrasia scotica ’ from Ben Lawers as E. minima, an 
opinion independently arrived at by Dr. Ostenfeld.” I hope that E. 
foulaensis will follow E. scotica and disappear also. 
E. salishnrgensis Funck. Ballyvaghan and Kinwarra, Co. 
Clare, on limestone. The record from Roundstone, Co. Galway, 
was not confirmed during the excursion, only small E. gracilis being 
found. 
Melampyrum vulgatum Pers. 
The Melampyrum pratense collected during the excursion 
(Yorkshire, Honley Woods ; Killarney, Co. Kerry) belong to the 
above-named form, not to the true M. pratense L. sens, stricto. 
F. hians Druce seems to be the yellow-flowered form of M. 
vulgatum, just as/. aureum Norman is the yellow-flowered form of 
the true M. pratense L. 1 do not know if M. pratense sens, strict, 
occurs in the British Isles; it must be looked for in the northern 
and mountainous parts. 
Labiate. 
Lamium galeobdolon (L.) Crantz. var. montanum (Pers.) Briquet. 
In the British Isles L. galeobdolon occurs in the same variety: 
var. montanum (Pers.) Briq. (syn. Galeobdolon luteum Huds., propter 
patriam) which is also found in the Alps. In Sweden, Denmark, 
Germany and the Sudetes and Carpathians another geographical 
race var. vulgare (Pers.) Briquet occurs which seems to have quite 
a different area of distribution. (Cf. FI. exsicc. Austro-Hungarica, 
Nos. 3295 and 3296). 
