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40 NOTES ON SCOTCH PLANTS.
prevented the roses from being carefully worked. This year the
visit was equally mis-timed, for I reached Scotland at the end of six
weeks' drought, which had dried up the vegetation hi a terrible
manner, and which the continued rainfall I experienced did little to
benefit. I spent two hours in Glen A'an, but got soaked shortly
after reaching the rocks. There is still a good deal of work to be
done on the rocks around its head and on the southern side.
Such of the following plants as are believed to be new records
are marked * ; personal vouchers for which authority is lacking in
Top. Bot. are marked f. In a few cases I have put in some
altitudinal records where these extend the range from those given in
the ' Student's Flora.' It is quite probable that these have been
already noted by other observers. I am indebted to Messrs. Arthur
Bennett, F. J. Hanbury, F. Townsend, M.P., and Eev. W. Moyle
Rogers for kind assistance.
The variety of Ranunculus acris L., called by Wahlenberg piimilus
(see Journ. Bot., 1889, 204), I have had in cultivation a year; it
still retains its characters. I saw a plant or two in Glen A'an, at
nearly 3000 ft. ^Banff, 94.
Erophila mflata Hook. f. occurred by the Loch on Lawers. It
scarcely seems worthy of specific designation ; an inflated fruited
form of E. precox, which we have in Oxfordshire, closely
approaches it.
Draba incana L., as the var. contorta (Ehrh.), was plentiful on
the cliffs of Meal Garbh, 88, and also sparingly in *West Eoss, and
on sand-hills in East Ross.
Arabis petrcRa Lamk. The glabrous cut-leaved variety from the
Cairngorms retains its characters under cultivation, although it has
narrowly escaped destruction from slugs, which are passionately
fond of it, while they utterly neglect the Ben Laoigh plant, which
also remains unaltered under cultivation. I saw the glabrous form
in *Glen A'an, Banff.
Viola lutea Huds., var. aincena (Symons). Perhaps under this
should be placed an extremely handsome form which occurred on
the cliffs of Meal Garbh, notwithstanding its tricolor aspect. It is
more correctly the var. grandijiora of Gren. et Godr. vol. i., p. 184;
see also Vill. Cat. Strasb., which, I believe, was a yellow-flowered
form.
"^Fumaria dendflora DC. On rubbish-heaps, Inverness, 96. —
^F. capreolata L. West Ross, 105.
*Dianthus deltoides L. Linlithgow ; v. sp. in Hort. Ox. Forfar,
90 ; V. sp. in Hort, Ox.
Lychnis diurna Sibth. Occurred with white flowers on Ben Lawers.
Arenaria sedoides Schultz. Ascends to at least 3600 ft* on
Lawers, 88, and descends to 1800 ft. on Ben Slioch. fWest Ross,
forma apetala, 105.
I Cerastium tetrandrum Curtis, Nairn, 96.— *C. aljAmivi L. Not the
lanatum of Lamarck, but that pubescent lighter green plant which
is, I believe, Bentham's var. piloso-puhescens. Loch A'an, 94.
StcUaria media Cyr,, var. *major Koch, Kiulochewe, 105.