170 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



UTRICULARIA VULGARIS, Linn. no Hebrides, "Top. Bot." ed. 2, 

 1883. Recorded by Balfour and Babington in 1841, from N. 

 Uist. As they went from Dunvegan to Loch Maddy in N. 

 Uist, and as Dr. Shoolbred found U. neglecta near there, it is 

 possible that they gathered the same plant, as U. neglecta was 

 not then differentiated in Britain from U. vulgaris. 



As yet I have not seen specimens of U. vulgaris from the 

 islands, and by the kindness of Messrs. Goode and Moss, I 

 have ascertained there are no specimens of Utricularia from 

 the Outer Hebrides in the late Prof. Babington's herbarium. 

 Dr. Bayley Balfour kindly allowed Mr. Jeffrey, the Curator of 

 the Edinburgh Herbarium, to look if there were any specimens 

 from the Outer Hebrides in it, and he reports " there are none," 

 so that we cannot prove whether it was vulgaris that was seen. 



(To be continued.} 



NOTES ON CAREX. 

 By Rev. EDWARD S. MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. 



PERHAPS I may be allowed to supplement my friend Mr. 

 Druce's general review of Pfarrer G. Kukenthal's monograph 

 (pp. 46-52) by some more detailed remarks. In the revised 

 list which I drew up for the tenth edition of the " London 

 Catalogue " there are some errors and inadvertent omissions 

 of varieties, the latter mainly due to my having taken over 

 the work in an advanced stage, and too hastily assumed that 

 most, if not all, recent additions had already been included 

 in the rough draft. 



C. chatophylla, Steudel. Specimens from Seaford, 14, East Sussex, 

 were so named for Mr. H. S. Thompson in 1905 by Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke. They look fairly distinct from our ordinary British 

 C. divisa, having very slender filiform leaves and a smaller 

 inflorescence. 



C.diandra, Schrank,var./ir/iar/iana (Hoppe). I cannot distinguish 

 the English specimens so named from type ; it is accordingly 

 ignored in " Lond. Cat." 



C. contigua, Hoppe (muricata, Koch, et auct. angl.). This name 

 is definite, and preferable to the earlier C. spicata, Huds. ; the 

 synonyms quoted by Hudson are very vague, and the habitat 



