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3400 feet in S. Aberdeen, in 1892 ; near Dalmally, Argyll; Lerwick 

 (R. Tate in Hb. Brit. Mus., 1865); Aviemore, Easterness, in 1882 ; 

 and Broughton in Peebles in 1888. It has been collected in St. 

 Kilda, in 1905, by Mr. O. Paulson. It may be known from fontana 

 by its larger seeds being chestnut-brown, shining, and reticulate. 

 In M. fontana (M. chondrosperina, Fenzl) the seeds are smaller, 

 dull, dead-black, covered with acute tubercles. Each species has 

 its water-form. In Kirkdale Pass, Cumberland, I have found it as a 

 small upright plant, but the seeds are quite typical. On the contrary 

 a floating form which is named M. rivnlaris, from Jersey, in Hb. 

 Brit. Mus., is only M. fontana. The last edition of Koch's 

 : ' Flora Germanica " keeps them as distinct species. The larger of 

 lamprosperma is distinctly northern, being the only form found 

 in the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, and the common one in 

 Denmark ; occurring also in North Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, 

 Finland, etc. It is also recorded for France, etc. I have found 

 it also in North Ireland, and on Glydyr Fawr in North Wales. 

 G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, M.A. 



Solidago sp. On one bank of the Forth between Stirling and 

 Gargannoch, Mr. H. N. Dixon, the eminent bryologist, saw a species 

 of Solidago quite naturalised. Can any reader obtain specimens so 

 that the species may be identified ? J. CLARIDGE DRUCE, Yardley 

 Lodge, Oxford. 



Sehoenus nigrieans, Z., in Haddingtonshire. -- To the few 



counties given for this Rush in Prof. Trail's " Topographical Botany 

 of Forth and Tweed" (l.c.\ should be added Haddington (82). 

 It occurs very sparingly on the links between Aberlady and Gullane, 

 where it was gathered by Mr. A. H. Evans during an excursion of 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club on 29th August, 1900, as 

 recorded in the " Proceedings," xvii. 240. I was with the Club 

 on that occasion and got a specimen of the Sclixnus from Mr. 

 Evans, but did not see it growing, and it was not till 29th August 

 last that I succeeded in rediscovering it a single tuft only. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Goodyera repens, R. Br., in Haddingtonshire. According to 

 Prof. Trail's 'Topographical Botany of the River -Basins Forth 

 and Tweed,' published in "Transactions of the Botanical Society, 

 Edinburgh," for 1903, Goodyera repens has not been recorded 

 from county 82, i.e. Haddington. The plant, however, grows 

 abundantly in several pine woods in the central portion of the 

 county, where it has been known to myself and others for a number 

 of years past. The westmost point to which I have traced it, is 

 near Fountainhall, where a few patches were met with in May 1906. 

 Unfortunately, through the cutting down of certain woods in the 

 district where it chiefly occurs, the area occupied by the plant has 



