58 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Britain, and but once in Ireland, by Mr. Hiaton. Morison's Hist. 

 Ray Synopsis, 137." Lightfoot, in "Flora Scotica," also gives it 

 for the same locality, " plentifully upon the limestone rocks of 

 Ben-huardal, etc., in the parish of Christ-Church, in Strath-Swardles, 

 in the isle of Skye." It still grows in some quantity on this lime- 

 stone hill, which is given in the Ordnance Map as Ben Suardal. 

 The Irish record mentioned by Martin is, I suppose, from the same 

 locality as given in Mr. W. A. Clarke's " First Records of British 

 Flowering Plants," " in the mountains betwixt Gort and Galloway 

 [Galway]. Mr. Heaton," the date being 1650 and the reference 

 How, "Phyt.," 120. SYMERS M. MACVICAR. 



Carex rostrata x vesiearia in Glen Callater. Pfarrar G. 

 Kiikenthal has named a sedge as above which I gathered in 1882 

 at the head of Glen Callater, South Aberdeenshire. That it is a 

 hybrid of rostrata I have little doubt. G. C. DRUCE. 



Deyeuxia strieta, H. B. K., var. borealis, in Perthshire. I 



notice in " The Flora of Perthshire," recently issued, that no 

 reference is made to the real discoverer of this interesting grass in 

 Strath Tay in 1888, nor is its extinction in its original and, I am 

 afraid, only station, as reported by me in the " Journ. Bot." for 1897, 

 mentioned. G. C. DRUCE. 



Saxifraga grcenlandiea, L. Although the name is included in 

 the Perthshire Flora, no locality is given. Professor Engler named 

 the specimen on which the report is based, which I collected on 

 Ben Lawers and reported to Dr. Buchanan-White. G. C. DRUCE. 



Charaeeae from Scotland. In ' Notes on British Characeae, 

 1895-1898,' in the "Journal of Botany" (Nov. 1898), by H. & J. 

 Groves, there are numerous records from Scotland. These are from 

 various localities, a considerable proportion having been collected by 

 Mr. S. M. Macvicar, in 1896, in Coll and Tiree (Mid Ebudes, 103). 

 Subjoined are the various records, the name of the collector and the 

 date being added after each district, except these islands : 



Chara fragilis, Desv., Ayrshire, A. Somcrville, 1896; Cantire, 



C. E. Salmon, 1897. 



var. Hedwigii, Aberdeen N.,y. W. H. Trail, 1883. 

 var. deUcatula, Westerness, S. M. Macvicar, 1895; Cantire, 

 C. E. Salmon, 1897; Islay, S. Ebudes, T. K Gilmour, 

 1898 ; Mid Ebudes. 

 C. aspera, Willd., Mid Ebudes, Coll and Tiree. 



var. siibincrinis, Coll. 

 C, contraria, Kuetz., Tiree. 



C. hispida, L., Isle of Gigha, Cantire, A. Somerville, 1898 ; Coll 

 and Tiree; Orkney, A. Somerville, 1898. 



