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again. In September of last year, on again visiting the locality, I had 

 no difficulty in finding what I sought. Many and vigorous snoots of 

 what was plainly Gorrie's plant were growing to a height of three or 

 four feet. The bush had not flowered since the cutting down, but 

 it will probably do so next year. The Edinburgh botanists might look 

 after it and try to prevent its being destroyed. As I have already 

 said, I believe it to be as yet unique in Scotland. I may add that 

 at a distance of about 100 yards I found a bush of R. involuta which 

 had also been cropped, and was recovering. It had flowered, as I 

 found on it the remains of several abortive fruits. W. BARCLAY. 



Atriplex ealotheea, fries ("Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant.," 3, p. 164, 

 1842). 



A. hastata, van ca/ofheai, Rafn., " Danm. Fl.," p. 240, teste Fries, 

 I.e. I was very pleased to see Mr. Druce's report of A. calotheca, 

 Fr., in Wigtown, in the last number of the "Annals." For some 

 time I have expected this would occur as a Scottish plant, and I 

 have several Scottish specimens that are probably it ; but they are 

 all too immature to be sure of. If found in good fruit, there is no 

 difficulty in separating this from the other British forms ; but it is 

 not so easy to separate the Scandinavian ones placed under it. In 

 Hartman's "Handbook" (p. 350, 1879) it is separated into four 

 forms : viz. a, gemiina (" Fl. Danica," t. 1608) ; (3, stipitata (Westerl.) ; 

 y, longipes (Drejer), " Fl. Danica," t. 2714, and 8, parviflora, Lange. 

 Lange (" Danske Flora ") makes calotheca into three varieties and one 

 subspecies with a variety. Westerlund, in 1861, published a critical 

 account of the Swedish species, entitled " Bidrag till kannedomen af 

 Sveriges Atriplices." The possible stations for calotheca in Scotland 

 are: E. Sutherland, Rev. E. S. Marshall!; E. Ross, Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall ! ; Wigtown, J. M'Andrew. A remarkable variety of A. 

 littoralis, L., simulating the var. longipes of calotheca, I have from 

 Abercorn, Linlithgow, Dr. Playfair ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Scottish Forms of Juneus. Among several Junci that I lately 

 submitted to Dr. Buchenau were several from Scotland of interest, if 

 only from the queries they may suggest. To small specimens of 

 J. lamprocarpus from Islay (V.C. 102), gathered by Dr. Gilmour, he 

 adds : " Ad var. littoralem accedens " ; to another from the same 

 island: "/". alpinus -< lamprocarpus! differt a. J. lamprocarpo sepalis 

 obtusioribus." Specimens from Orkney (coll. J. Boswell Syme, 

 com. F. J. Hanbury) are marked by him : "J. anceps x lamprocarpus, 

 veiy. alpinns x lamprocarpus! is perhaps a hybrid plant which has 

 become gradually fruitful. This would have to be proved on the 

 spot." So far /. alpinus has not been recorded for the Orkneys ; 

 but it is very likely to occur more so, one would think, thany. anceps 

 (although 1 )r. Buchenau writes : "/". anceps x lamprocarpus is now 

 known to me from Borkum also"). Out of the 23 North Sea 



