48 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



*CROCUS VERNUS, All. ; ^NARCISSUS PSEUDO-NARCISSUS, L. ; 

 *GALANTHUS NIVALIS, L. ; *FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS, L. ; and 



*COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE, L. 



JUNCUS GLAUCUS, Leers. Banks of Thurso river, A. Davidson, 

 ("Journ. Bot.," 1886, p. 24). 



J. ALPINUS, Vill. Marsh, Forse, 5th Aug. 1908, Miss Helen 

 Lillie, daughter of the Rev. D. Lillie of Watten Manse, a 

 student of the Caithness mosses. An addition to the Flora. 

 It seems odd that alpinus has not been recorded from the 

 Orkneys or Shetland. Yet, on a specimen gathered by Dr. 

 Boswell Syme, in Orkney, 1887, Dr. Buchenau remarked 

 (11.12.1898): "An^. anceps x lamprocarpus, vel alpinus * 

 lamprocarpusl capita ut m J. lamprocarpo, sed perigoniumy. 

 ancipitis vel alpini." It should be sought in Orkney and the 

 O. Hebrides, as Dr. Buchenau suggests. 



LUZULA MULTIFLORA, " DC.," var. *SUDETICA (-DC.), (L. sudetica, 

 DC., " Fl. fran9aise" (1815), iv. p. 306); London Catalogue 

 gives DC. as the author of multiflora ; but Lejeune in 

 his " Fl. of Spa" (1811), i. p. 169, was the author, according 

 to Dr. Buchenau in " Kr. Zns. europ. Juncaceen "). Near 

 Thurso, J. Galloway, sp. ; Loch Duran, E. S. Marshall, sp. ; 

 remarked on a specimen thence, " likely J. anceps x lampro- 

 carpus." 



SPARGANIUM SIMPLEX. Watten, J. Grant, sp. 



POTAMOGETON ALPINUS. " Dr. Tyacke brought two specimens of 

 Potamogeton rufescens from Caithness " (Dr. G. Johnson in 

 Watson's "New Botanists' Guide," 1837, p. 517)- In 

 Watson's " Outlines Geogr. Dist," 1832, p. 288, no mention 

 is made of this as a Caithness plant, so that 1837 is its first 

 record from the county. 



P. NITENS, Weber, var. PR^ELONGIFOLIA, Tis., = " var. latifolius, 

 Fieb." = var. maxima, A. Benn. olim. 



P. FILIFORMIS, Pers., small form between type and var. FASCICULATUS 

 ( Wolfg.). Loch Watten, Dr. Davidson, sp. 



SCIRPUS C^ESPITOSUS, L. Stroma Isle, Miss Geldart, sp. Growing 

 in dense clumps with arcuate stems, in some to f of a circle. 

 It is difficult to account for this, as the normal form was 

 growing near, and there is no sign of insect or fungus injury. 

 The same thing occurs with Schcenus nigricans in Cornwall. 



CAREX KATTEGATENSIS, Fries. Mr. G. Nicolson, I.e., remarks that 

 this plant was so abundant " that it used to be mown for bog- 

 hay for farm-purposes ; but probably the recent river-improve- 

 ments, the banking and deepening of the sandbank on which 

 the Carex grows, must have worked havoc among its ranks." 



