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168 ABERDEEN, tORFAR, AND DUMFRIES PLANT -iSTOTES.
appearance. The peduncles are short and scarcely lengthen in
fruiting ; some in the fruiting stage do not reach two inches
"whereas in V. Cracca, type, they develop from four to six inches. The
hair on the upper part of the style is much the same, but rather
denser in the variety. The leaflets are rather broader in proportion
to length, and less acuminate, though equally mucronate. The
dwarf condition is not merely due to a subalpine condition ; a
specimen of type V. Cracca was gathered at Braemar ten days
later, growing much as usual, though at an elevation 700 ft. or
800 ft. higher than the Clova station.
Spircca salicifolia L. Glen Isla, Forfar. A well-established
escape in several parts of Scotland.
liubus Koehleri Weihe, var. palUdus, Bab. Dry copse, Moffat
Water (72).
Dryas octopetala L. Very fine on the rocky ledges of Little
Craigindal (92).
Alchemilla vulgaris L., var. montana, Willd. Growing with the
type, in some quantity over a piece of upland pasture near
Braemar (92).
Bosa coriifoUa Fr., var. Lintoni, Scheutz. Near Braemar (92),
whence first reported.
Ejnlobiion angustifolmm L., var. hrachycarpum Leight. Whatever
is settled regarding this dubious variety, there is no reason for
looking on it as an introduced plant. The Kev. E. S. Marshall has
already commented in these pages on our gathering it high up the
Unich Water (90), some miles away from habitation and cultivation.
*E. obscitrum Schreb. Moffat Water (72). — E. ohscurum x
palustre. Moffat (72).
Galium Molku/o L.
Braemar (92)
Growing in a hedge in the outskirts of
; under which circumstances we cannot add anything
to ' Topographical Botany,' where it is given for 92 " as a distrusted
native." ^^~*G. sylvestre Foil. Eocky gorge of Grey Mare's Tail,
Moffat Water (72).
Eocks of Little Craigindal (92).
^^Crepis hieracioides Wald. & Kit. Moffat Water (72).
Hieracium niyrescens Willd. On the rocky precipice of the
Dhuloch (92) were growing three differing forms, all of which go
under what we are accustomed to regard as H. nigrescens, and every
one of them difiering from the monocephalous form gathered on
Ben Hope, Sutherland, in 1886. We have first to learn what true
H. nigrescens Willd. is. Then some of these distinguishable forms
will be found worthy at least of varietal names. H. lasiophi/llwn
Koch., Bradoonie, Clova (90). There is also in this district a
pallidimi form, which is, perhaps, H. crinigerwn Fries, which runs
near H. lasioiJiyllum, and has at times been confused with it.— *i?.
argenteum Fries. Grey Mare's Tail, Moffat Water (72). Eather
scarce. H. aqgreiiatxan Backh. Glen Fiagh (90) ; a scarce plant
in Forfar.— =:=)i. Farrense F. J. Hanb. Glen Shee (89). We did
not recognize this plant ; it was detected among our unnamed
Hawkweeds by Mr. F. J. Hanbury. It shows no variation from the
Sutherland plant, and is an interesting extension southwards of a
very local plant hitherto only known on the north coast of