. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. EUPHRASIA AND RHINANTHUS 237 on Carices and half on Gramina. The result would indicate what further cultures might be necessary. In referring to another dubious plant, Mr. Marshall speaks of it as differing from E. foidaensis, among other ways, in having flowers of a " beautiful ; But this is not a difference either from E. foidaensis or E. scottica ; it is the characteristic colour of the original E. foulensis, though I have since learnt that this intense violet-blue is the pre- domin
. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. EUPHRASIA AND RHINANTHUS 237 on Carices and half on Gramina. The result would indicate what further cultures might be necessary. In referring to another dubious plant, Mr. Marshall speaks of it as differing from E. foidaensis, among other ways, in having flowers of a " beautiful ; But this is not a difference either from E. foidaensis or E. scottica ; it is the characteristic colour of the original E. foulensis, though I have since learnt that this intense violet-blue is the pre- dominating colour in the minimce in Shetland when growing on the peat, whether the group is represented by one species or more ; just as pale-flowered forms predominate on the dry grassy slopes. But neither colour is exclusively confined to either formation. In my last Shetland paper (p. 106) I wrote that I was " strongly disposed to accept " Ostenfeld's conclusions regard- ing these several plants. That remark was the result of general impressions derived from many observations ; but the further research and examination of specimens which this note has entailed compel me to somewhat modify that remark and to say that excluding opinions founded on undefined " characteristic" specimens, etc., I think that the bulk of the evidence at present adducible favours Dr. Osten- feld's view, and that his arrangement can only be assailed by actual proof obtained by means of the necessary cultural experiments. I am not at all confident that the results would confirm these views ; but the cultures are not suggested with the object of confirming the views of one rather than another,-but in the hope that we may learn from them some facts which \\-\\\ enable us to estimate correctly the relative positions of these plants. RJiinantkus.—Mr. Marshall writes : " R. stenopJiyllus is considered by Mr. Beeby to be an 'autumnal' variety of R. minor" Well, really, in so charac
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