Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

V.C.,
CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A FLORA OF CAITHNESS
in
TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE, L. C.
T. REPENS, L. C. even on the Came or Comb, rocky ridge 3 to 4
on the north-west
feet wide, jutting out over the sea in a gully
coast.
T. MINUS, Relh. C. first week in July.
LOTUS CORNICULATUS, Z. V.C., the country yellow with it, June
28.
VICIA CRACCA, L. C., June 30.
fViciA SATIVA, L. Sown with the oats in the fields.
V. SEPIUM, L. Fields, east side, July 15. (Mainland, at John
o' Groats, July 6 ;
at Gills, July 24.)
LATHYRUS PRATENSIS, L.
V.C. along ditches and roadsides.
SPIR/EA ULMARIA, L. C. on east cliffs, in bud, June 20.
POTENTILLA ToRMENTiLLA, Scheiick. Frequent,
"with thick rootstocks."
P. ANSERINA, L. \ and a small form which may be the sub-var.
pusiUci) Coss. and Germ.
RUBUS SAXATILIS, L. On sea-cliffs, with long runners ;
fruits at
only one place on the east cliff; in flower July
i. One of the
inhabitants who had watched it for several years told Miss
Geldart that this little sheltered bay is the only place where
the fruit ever turns red ; perhaps the fruit forms without
ripening in other situations.
The only wild rose in Stroma is a white dog-rose at the
extreme edge of east cliff, among Salioc repens ; unfortunately
no specimen was taken.
MVRIOPHYLLUM ALTERNiFLORUM, DC. \ Marsh
near Manse, July 5.
CALLITRICHE was in flower west of Manse, July 23,
was found.
but no fruit
on the
(Sedum Rhodiola, DC. --Though this occurs plentifully
opposite shore of the mainland on cliffs between Huna and
John o' Groat's, I could not find a single specimen in Stroma.
There is one plant in a garden which was brought from Dunnet
Head thirty years ago, and was flowering this year
for the first
time.)
PARNASSIA PALUSTRIS, L. \
Just beginning to flower, June 30 ;
from i inch high.
HYDROCOTYLE VULGARIS, L.
V.C.
HELIOSCIADIUM INUNDATUM, Koch \ Marsh
LIGUSTICUM SCOTICUM, L. \
Top
cliffs, very fine.
north of Manse, July 5.
of south-west and north-west