1 86 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, Z., in the Outer Hebrides. In 



" Topographical Botany," ed. 2, the above species stands unrecorded 

 for five Scotch counties. I have seen specimens from Argyle and 

 East Sutherland, and it is recorded for Wigtown in the Record 

 Club Report for 1883. 



In May of this year Mr. W. S. Duncan has sent specimens from 

 " South of Tarbert, Harris." This leaves only one county for 

 which it stands unvouchecl, viz. Shetland. It seems quite wanting 

 in Sweden, though occurring in Norway and Denmark, while S. altcr- 

 nifoliuni is distributed throughout the whole Scandinavian peninsula 

 and about half the provinces of Finland. 



In Scotland C. alternifolium is recorded north to Argyle, 

 Inverness, and Elgin. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Linnsea borealis, Gron., in Sutherland. --The receipt of 

 specimens of the above plant from Dr. Joass, of Golspie Manse, has 

 called my attention to the omission I made of this species in the 

 "Annals" for 1893, p. 225. Mr. Grant sent me specimens gathered 

 in July 1888 by Mr. Lindsay in "Little Ferry Wood," and how I 

 came to neglect to insert it I am unable now to say. 



Dr. Joass kindly writes as follows : " I saw it a few years ago, 

 hanging from a saucer in a cottage window in this parish, near 

 Balblain pine-wood, and was offered a guide to show me its habitat. 

 We missed it on the way out, my guide being a small boy ; but it 

 was found in a considerable patch on our return track. Next year 

 my sister found a larger spread of it about half a mile off. I do not 

 know any other locality for it in Sutherland. I am told that it grows 

 in Novar Wood in Ross." 



Novar is about 6{ miles north-east of Dingwall; but I suppose 

 the note of its extinction " near Dingwall " may apply to this wood, 

 " owing to the wood in which it grew being cut down and cultivated 

 (T. A.) " * Its record in West Ross (Davidson, in " Scottish Natural- 

 ist "), has not been, I think, confirmed. The old locality of " Brahan 

 Castle " would be south of Dingwall. Is this the same locality as 

 " Kingsmills, now destroyed by cultivation " ? I have seen speci- 

 mens from Inverness (V.C. 96). The Sutherland station will take 

 it about 25 miles farther north than previous records; but there is 

 no reason why it should not be found still more northwards, as, 

 though not recorded for Iceland or the Faroes, it occurs throughout 

 Scandinavia up to lat. 71 10", and in Finland in all the northern 

 provinces. In 1883 it was found by the Swedish expedition at 

 Ivigtut in South Greenland, and in 1884 by the Fylla expedition 



1 "Journal of Botany," 1889, p. 362. 



