4 o ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



ALISMA PLANTAGO-AQUATICA, L. Loch Fiart. The only locality 

 on this coast to the north of Lismore from which I have seen 

 it recorded is Tiree, where it is rare, and occurs as the var. 

 lanceolatum, Afz. 



POTAMOGETON NATANS, L. Rather rare. Loch Balnagown. 



'POTAMOGETON COLORATUS, Hornem. Exit stream of Loch Fiart. 

 Lismore and Coll are the only definite localities for this plant 

 north of the Clyde. The apparent absence of the commonest 

 pondweed of this coast, P. polygonifolius, is rendered more 

 interesting by a remark of Mr. Fryer's in his " Monograph of 

 Potamogetons of the British Isles," at present being issued, 

 that " it is not a little remarkable that where coloratus abounds 

 folygonifolius is seldom or never present." 



POTAMOGETON ANGUSTIFOLIUS, Presl. (Zizn, Roth.) [?]. Loch 

 Fiart. An interesting plant still under examination. 



* POTAMOGETON PR^LONGUS, Wulf. Loch Fiart. I have gathered 

 this species in Mull and Skye, but it appears to be rarer in the 

 islands than on the coast mainland, where it is to be found in 

 most of the deeper hill-lochs which I have examined. It has 

 not been yet recorded from the Outer Hebrides. Mr. Bennett 

 informs me that there is a specimen of Sir W. Hooker's from 

 Skye in the Kew Herbarium. 



*POTAMOGETON PERFOLiATUS, L. Loch Fiart and its exit stream. 



Not an uncommon plant on the islands and mainland of this 



coast. 

 POTAMOGETON PUSILLUS, L. Loch Balnagown, etc. Occurs also 



in what is probably a luxuriant sterile state. 



CAREX TERETIUSCULA, Good., var. Ehrhartiana (Hoppe) (fide 

 Messrs. Beeby and Bennett). Not uncommon in damp 

 pastures. Neither the species nor its variety has been recorded 

 from the islands north of this, but Dr. Shoolbred writes me 

 that he found the former last year in the Outer Hebrides. 



CAREX PANICULATA, L. Loch Balnagown. Rare on the islands to 

 the north of Lismore, but occurring in Mull, Tiree, and the 

 Outer Hebrides. 



* CAREX VULPINA, L. Among wet rocks near the shore. 



* AVENA PUBESCENS, Hnds. Only a few plants seen. 



CHARA FRAGILIS, Besv. Uncommon. 



CHARA ASPERA, Willd. Common. This is the prevalent species, 

 and is doubtless the Chara hispida which Carmichael gives for 

 this island in Hooker's Flora Scotica. 



*CHARA VULGARIS, L. Much less common than the preceding. 

 f Var. LONGIBRACTEATA, Kuetz. Loch Balnagown. 



