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Juneus alpinus, VilL, in Easterness. Among some forms of 

 rushes which I gathered in Glen Eunich, in 1887, I have lately 

 seen that one is Juneus alpinus, Vill., a new county record for 

 Easterness. J. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Poa laxa on Loehnagar. I notice, on p. 59, that Prof. Hackel 

 has determined Loehnagar specimens of Poa laxa as belonging 

 to P. alpina. No doubt he is correct, so far as the specimens 

 submitted to him go. But that by no means disproves the existence 

 of the true plant, about which I know that Prof. Babington entertains 

 no doubt. In 1886 Mr. F. J. Hanbury and myself paid two visits 

 to the mountain, and gathered three forms, viz. P. minor, P. /axa, 

 and viviparous P. alpina. The second of these was cultivated in 

 the garden at Clapton, and remained quite distinct from P. alpina. 

 Whether it be the true P. laxa or not, I am unable to say ; but it 

 is certainly not ordinary British alpina. I have cultivated two 

 curious states of the latter from Ben Lawers, which at once reverted 

 to type, except that they remained viviparous. I do not think that, 

 until better evidence is forthcoming, we ought to expurge from our 

 list a species recorded on very high authority. It is easy for a 

 collector to be taken in by a peculiar state of the common alpine 

 meadow-grass. EDWARD S. MARSHALL. 



First Records of Scottish Plants. In the continuation in the 

 "Journal of Botany" (January, 1894) of "First Records of British 

 Flowering Plants," by Wm. A. Clarke, F.L.S., the following are 

 recorded as having been first noted in Britain from localities in 

 Scotland : 



Erythrcea linarifolia, Pers., 1805. "Mr. Winch finds it abun- 

 dantly near Newcastle, and Mr. Brodie . . . equally copiously near 

 Brodie House, in Elginshire."- -Dawson Turner in " Bot. Guide," 

 469. 



Gentiana nivalis, L., 1794, Ben Lawers. James Dickson in 

 " Linn. Trans.," ii. 290. 



Symphytum tuberosum, L., 1777. " Mr. Yalden found it growing 

 sparingly opposite the new well at the Water of Leith."- Lightfoot 

 in " Fl. Scot," 1092. 



Myosotis repens, D., 1821. "Moist hills about Glasgow, D. 

 Don ; and Ochil Hills, G. and D. Don." - - Hooker in " Fl. 

 Scot.," 67. 



M. alpestris, Schmidt, 1813. Found "long ago" by G. Don, 

 J. Mackay, and others, on Highland mountains in Scotland (E. B., 

 2559, AT. rupicola), but first published in Don's "Herb. Brit," 

 205, in 1804, as M. alpina. 



Cuscuta europcza, L., 1797. " Mr. Sowerby last autumn received 

 wild specimens of the real enropcea from Mr. Alexander Smith 

 of Aberdeen" (E. B., 378). 



