120 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



In the : 'New Botanists' Guide," 1837, p. 498, Mr. Watson says 

 of the "Rev. G. Gordon's 'Cat. of Plants found in Moray,' a tract 

 of country including the present county (Elgin) along with that of 

 Nairn, and likewise parts of Ross, Inverness, and Banffshire." It is 

 not given for Elgin here. In the " Comp. Cybele Brit., 1869, p. 323, 

 Moray is still unnamed. In the ist ed. of "Top. Botany," 1874, 

 p. 374, no Elgin or Moray is named ; neither are they in the 2nd ed., 

 1883, p. 387. The only locality at all near Moray seems to be 

 ' Contin, 8 miles from Dingwall," and Coull on the Conan river. 

 In the " Supplement to the Compendium," 1872, p. 85, Wilson gives 

 it for the sub-province 31, i.e. " Banff, Elgin, Nairn, East Inverness." 

 Whether the records " Mr. Lawson " or " Miller " of " Top. Botany " 

 were of stations under Moray I do not know. I have seen speci- 

 mens only from Co. 68, Si, 85, 87, 90, and 92. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Vieia sylvatiea, L., var. eondensata, Druce.^ In the " Annals " 

 for 1910, p. 40, Mr. Druce records this from shingle north of Drum- 

 more, V.C. 74. 



The late Mr. A. Somerville sent me a series of specimens from 

 the shore-rubble north of Johnshaven, Kincardine (9. 8. 1905), 

 which are even more condensed (especially in the non-flowering 

 shoots) than Mr. Druce's original examples. In these Kincardine 

 specimens the leaves are oblong, rotund, closely compacted and the 

 edges revolute, and looking much like a small contracted form of 

 V. sepiii/n, L. Many of the leaflets are nearly as broad as long, 

 while in typical examples they are nearly three times as long. 

 ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Poa palustris, Linn, in Scotland. Another locality has recently 

 been added, by Mr. James M 'Andrew, to the two already known for 

 this plant in Scotland, by his discovery near Kenmure Castle, New 

 Galloway, of a grass which both Dr. Stapf and Professor Hackel 

 agree in placing under this name. I have lately seen several sheets 

 of a grass gathered by Dr. Knapp and labelled by him " Poa 

 nemoralis, a variety found by me at Linn na Grach, Perthshire, 

 1835," which, it seems to me, might well be placed under Poa 

 palustris, Linn. I am anxious to find out the whereabouts of 

 "Linn, na Grach," "Linn, ma Gray," or "Linn, ma Grag " (as 

 Knapp variously writes it) in order that fresh specimens of Knapp's 

 plant may be got and submitted to present-day experts for identifica- 

 tion. Can any reader of the " Annals " throw light on the position 

 of that locality ? JAMES ERASER. 



Poa palustris, Z., near Aberdeen. In October, 1910, I found 

 this grass growing sparingly by a farm road at Ruthrieston, just 

 beyond the city's limits on the west side of Aberdeen. I am not 

 aware of its having been observed in this neighbourhood before. 

 There can be little, if any, doubt that the seeds had been thrown by 



1 "Naturalist" (1884), p. 85, and " Ex Club Report for 1883 (1884), p. 85. 



