120 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



islands (of which Borkum is one), J. alpinus, Vill., is recorded from 

 15 (L. Vuyck, "De Plantengroei der Dunen," 1898). J. anceps, De 

 la Harpe ('Ess. mon. vraies Joneses' in "Mem. Soc. Nat.," Paris, iv. 

 126, 1825), has a restricted distribution, and would seem more likely 

 to occur on the coasts of Eastern England than Scotland. J. alpinus, 

 Vill. ; J. anceps, De la Harpe ; J. atricapillus, Drejer ; and J. 

 Requienii, Parl., are closely allied, and often difficult to separate. 

 Dr. Buchenau makes^/. atricapiUus, Drejer (" Bid. t. d. Flora," Kroyers 

 Tidss., 2, p. 182, 1838), a variety of anceps (in " Krit. Zus. der 

 europaeischen Juncaceen," 1885). This occurs in Norway, Sweden, 

 Denmark, and Saxony. Specimens from " Ardneil Bay, W. Kilbride, 

 Ayrshire, 7.7.96, A. Somerville, growing in damp sea-shore sand," 

 are doubtfully named by Dr. Buchenau J. anceps x lamprocarpns, 

 \Q\alpinus x lamprocarpus ? ? ; forma rara radicans," Similar speci- 

 mens to those from Orkney, from the Outer Hebrides, are named in 

 the same way by Dr. Buchenau, and he remarks on them : " In the 

 Hebrides there probably occurs a form of anceps as well as lampro- 

 I'arpus." It would seem that, looking at the forms and distribution 

 of anceps, the var. atricapillus (of Drejer) would be the most likely to 

 occur in Scotland, one of its stations being " in dunetis maritimis a 

 Hallandia (Suec.)," Buchenau, l.c. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Orchis cruenta, Mutter, in Britain. Mr. Herbert Goss records 

 in the "Journal of Botany" (January 1899, p. 37) that he found 

 this plant last summer, moderately common, in two or three bogs 

 on the fells of Cumberland, at about 1000 feet above the sea-level. 

 Regarding it at the time as a very stunted form of O. latifolia, he 

 took only about a dozen examples. The plant has a pretty wide 

 distribution in Scandinavia, especially in bogs at from 1000 to 1600 

 feet above the sea-level in the north. It should be looked for in 

 Scotland. In Blytt's " Norges Flora" (pp. 341,342), it is said to 

 closely resemble O. incarnata, and especially O. latifolia, var. brevi- 

 folia, Rchb., from which it differs chiefly in the very dark purple 

 spots of the leaf, the rather smaller and darker red flowers, the 

 square undivided lip, and the very short slightly curved spur. 



New Varieties of Scotch Cariees. I again visited Ben Lawers 

 in last July and August in order to see Carex helvola, and found 

 that owing to the protracted drought it had somewhat suffered ; but 

 specimens which I collected were submitted to the Ffarrer Kiikenthal, 

 and he again corroborated the name of C. helvola, and he still con- 

 siders the plant to be a hybrid of C. approximata (lagopina} and 

 canescetis (curta]. With it I gathered a somewhat interesting form 

 of Carex flava which I also found on Ben Heasgarnich and Ben 

 Laoigh, which the Ffarrer Kiikenthal identifies with C, flava, var. 

 pygmcca, Andersson. This is described by Andersson in the 

 " Cyperacere Scandinavia" of 1849, P- 2 5> as "culmo unciali- 



