"NEOLITHIC" MOSS REMAINS FROM FORT WILLIAM in 



not distinguished it from T. recognitum ; and it was not till 

 1897 that I recognised its identity with the continental and 

 North American plant, and recorded it for the first time as 

 British. It is recorded in the Census Catalogue from Mid- 

 Perth and Argyll only ; and though it occurs on several of 

 the Perthshire mountains, it is undoubtedly a rare moss, and 

 (with us at least) confined to wet rocks in mountainous 

 districts. 



It is not very likely that anyone would suggest that 

 these two mosses are recent introductions into Britain. Still 

 the increasing army of invading aliens among Phanerogams 

 (and Splachnobryum and Hypopterygium may be cited among 

 mosses) tends to throw a more and more suspicious colour 

 upon all fresh discoveries, and every newly recorded British 

 plant has to run the gauntlet of a fierce fire of criticism 

 before it is allowed a place within the charmed circle of the 

 " native." It is, therefore, perhaps not unfortunate for the 

 future reputation of Thuidium delicatulum and T. PJiiliberli, as 

 indigenous British plants, that we can point to still existing 

 specimens which were growing in the mountain woods of 

 Western Scotland at the time when Neolithic man was 

 ranging them with his weapons of polished flint in search of 

 the bear, the wolf, the beaver, or the deer. 



NOTES ON THE REVIEW OF KUKENTHAL'S 



CAREX. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Kobresia caricina, Willd. Carex bipartita. All. " Fl. Fed." n. 230, 

 i, t. 89, f. 5. 



Kunth (whose work is in advance even now of later work) 

 places this under Elyna caricina, Mert. and Koch = K. caricina, 

 Willd. 1 Here it may be well to clear up another doubtful 

 Carex, i.e. C. simpliciuscula, Wahlb., Westmoreland. Dr. Alm- 

 quist wrote me that the original specimen in " Heb. Vet. 

 Skand.," Stockholm, is Elyna caricina. This was founded on 

 specimens gathered by Dawson Turner in Westmoreland. 2 



1 Baker, "Flora of the Lake District," 218, 1885. 



2 Specimens of the Kobresia are in Balbi's herbarium at Turin named Carex 

 bipartita, All., Bailey, I.e. 



