LLOYDIA SEROTINA 
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The specific name serotina —which dates from L. Sp. PL 294, 
where the plant, subsequently (Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 444) placed by Linnaeus 
in A.nthericum , appears as Hulbocodium serotinum —remains as 
given by L. Reichenbacli (/. c .), and is thus cited by Kunth (Enum. 
iv. 244; 1843) and J. G. Baker (in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. 
300). Salisbury’s name alpina is adopted in MS. Kew., but is clearly 
invalid, although it was at one time (e. y., by Smith in E. Bot.) 
generally adopted. The first restoration of serotina appears to be 
that of Sweet (Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 527 ; 1830), but he follows the then 
general tradition of attributing the genus to Salisbury, and was 
clearly unacquainted with Reichenbach’s description. Ledebour 
(/. e.) names it Nectarobothrium striatum , basing it upon Ornitho- 
(jalum striatum Willd. Sp. PL ii. 112—a plant which Willdenow 
himself (in Neu Schr. der Berlin Ges. Naturf. Fr. Band iii. 421) 
subsequently reduced to A. serotinum , which is also cited by Ledebour 
as a synonym of his striatum. 
HEPATICS FROM WEST SUTHERLANDSHIRE. 
By William Edward Nicholson, F.L.S. 
In July 1899 I visited Sutlierlandsliire in company with Mr. H. N. 
Dixon and Mr. E. S. Salmon, when we investigated the rich moss- 
llora, particularly in the neighbourhood of Inchnadamph, and the 
results of our investigations were published in this Journal for 1900 
(vol. xxxviii. pp. 410 et seqq.). At that time the Hepatics were left 
severely alone and, though 1 had long suspected the district of being 
rich in these plants, it was not until Jul}' 1921 that I had an oppor¬ 
tunity of remedying past omissions when from the 2nd to the 
18th July I stayed with Mr. H. H. Knight at the Inchnadamph 
Hotel, near the head of Loch Assynt. The rich flora of the neigh¬ 
bourhood is largely due to the great variety of rocks which comes to 
the surface, as the district was one of considerable volcanic activity 
in the remote past. Prominent among the rocks are the Durness 
limestone, which mostly occurs low down, reaching a maximum 
elevation of about 2000 feet over a small area, the Torridan sand¬ 
stone, of which Quinag (2653 ft.) with its fine cliff’s is mostly 
composed, and other hard siliceous rocks, of which quartzite is 
perhaps the hardest. The limestone was not so rich in hepatics 
as it had proved to be in mosses. The dry exposed cliffs of this 
formation to the south of Inchnadamph yielded very little, and a 
large part of it had weathered into smooth rounded surfaces, prac¬ 
tically devoid of these plants. The most favourable locality on 
the limestone was the banks of the Traligill in Glen Dubh, where 
several interesting species occurred. The majority of the Hepatics 
and all the interesting “Atlantic” species, in which the district 
proved to be rich, came from the siliceous rocks, and among the most 
favourable localities were the slopes of Ben Fhurain and the damp 
wood by the southern shore of Loch Assynt. With few exceptions, 
