3 8 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Carex atrata I. i 2 3 4 



C. pulla I. i 2 3 4 



C. rigida I. 2 



C. salina I. i 2 4 



Poa alpina I. i 2 3 4 



P. glauca I. i 2 3 4 



P. nemoralis I. i 2 3 4 



Aira alpina I. i [2] 3 4 



Agropyrum junceum i 



Polystichum Lonchitis i 4 



Phegopteris Dryopteris I. 2 



Equisetum pratense I. 2 



Lycopodium annotinum I. i 



Isoetes echinosporum I. 23 



23 are not found in any of the four Scottish vice-counties. 

 17 ,, ,, three 



14 two 



ii one 



Ranunculus auricomus, L. - - Watson observes on this l " there 

 seems no climatic cause to prevent its occurrence in the West 

 and North Highlands." In Arctic Norway it extends to 

 71 8', and altitude 1440 feet ; in Sweden to 68 N.; and from 

 Skane to Swedish Lapland its distribution is continuous; in 

 Russian Lapland to 69. Of the 23 above species, Sedum 

 villosum, Pyrola minor, and Juncus obtiisiflorus, seem the most 

 likely to occur in one or more of the four vice-counties named. 

 Of those absent from three Hypericum quadrangulum, Rhinan- 

 thus gronnlandicus, Juncus triglumis, and Poa nemoralis are 

 most likely to occur in some one or more of the three ; of those 

 absent from two Sagina subulata, Geranium sylvaticum, Alche- 

 milla filicaulis, the two Callitriches, Salix phylicifolia, and Isoetes 

 echinosporum ; of those absent from one Subularia aquatica, Cam- 

 panula rotundifolia, Euphrasia borealis, Luzula spicata, and 

 Phegopteris Dryopteris. 



Polygala vulgaris, var. Ballii, is given as in the Faroes ; but the 

 specimens sent me so named are certainly not the same as 

 the Irish plant. 



Alsine (Arenaria) hirta, Hartm. Mr. Beeby 2 says Dr. Lange 

 considered the Ben Lawers ' rubella ' " a compact form of 

 A. verna, var. hirta? Hooker 3 gives it as A. hirta, Wormsk., 

 with the syn. of ' A. rubella. Hook.' Wormskiold published it 

 in "Flora Danica," F. 38, t. 1646, 1819, edited by J. W. 



1 "Cyb. Brit." i. (1847), p. 87. 2 "Scot. Naturalist," (1888), p. 209. 



3 "Stud. Fl." ed. 3 (1884), p. 63. 



