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and this neighbourhood " ; these are both additional records for the 

 Outer Hebrides. 



Crithmum maritimum has sometimes been said not " to grow 

 on the sand " ; but this is certainly an error. I have seen it on 

 pebbly beaches, on sandy shores, and on the chalk cliffs of the south 

 of England. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Limosella aquatiea, Z., in Dumbarton. Mr. L. Watt of Clyde- 

 bank has sent specimens of the above species from a dam at 

 Duntocher in that county, some nine miles from Glasgow. It is only 

 on record for Ayr in the west, and for Haddington, Forfar, and 

 Kincardine in the east of Scotland. Mr Watt writes : " One side 

 of the dam being dry was covered with Limosella." No doubt it is 

 one of those species that can easily be passed over, especially if the 

 water-level is high. Its range is continuous in Sweden from Skane 

 to Norland ; and it occurs in Swedish, Finnish, and Russian Lapland 

 (though rare) north to 69 50' N. lat. South of lat. 67 it is 

 generally dispersed in Finland. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Carex atrofusea, Schler (itstulata, Wahl), in Perthshire. In 

 the "Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow," vii. (1907), p. 232, Mr. 

 P. Ewing, in a paper entitled ' An (Ecological Problem,' remarks : 

 " Nyman in his Conspectus Europcea mentions this plant from 

 Lawers, but I am inclined to think that this is an error caused by 

 the common expression, 'Scotch mountains,' of the older botanists. 

 Evidently he was not aware that Dr. Paul found the species, on July 

 22, 1892, 'on one of the slopes of the hill that descends to the 

 loch, Lochan a Chait.' " According to Dr. F. A. Lees in " The 

 Naturalist," September 1884, p. 70, in a review of the 3rd edition 

 of Hooker's " Students' Flora," " Specimens undoubtedly gathered 

 on Ben Lawers within about forty-two years, by the late Surgeon 

 Newnham, are in more than one herbarium ; and the writer found 

 one amongst a number of other carices sent him to be named by F. 

 C. King of Preston, gathered on the same hill within five years, un- 

 recognised at the time, the collector being a comparative tyro." 

 These dates make for years^about 1842 and 1879 respectively. 



If so, Don's report of the species was confirmed many years 

 before any notice or publication of the fact was made known, Mr. 

 Brebner's discovery of the plant on Ben Heasgarnich dating from 

 July 1885. 



It remains a remarkable thing that from 1810, the date on Don's 

 specimens, it should have escaped notice for so many years, on a 

 mountain so often ascended by botanists. Mr Pickard of Leeds 

 notes that the late Mr F. C. Crawford found it on Craig-Cailleach in 

 Perthshire. Did that botanist record that find anywhere ? A. 

 BENNETT, Croydon. 



Physeomitrella patens, B. and S., in Scotland. On 24th 

 October last I found this interesting little moss at Torduff Reservoir 



