234 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



133. Poa annua, L. Found from the base up to the very top 

 of Ben Lawers ("Fl. Perthsh." 351). Descends to sea-level in 

 Ireland. 



134. Poa alpina, L. On alpine rock-ledges near the top of 

 Ben Lawers ("Fl. Perthsh." 352; Hooker, Carroll, 1864, in Herb. 

 Brit.). Ascends to 1070 m. in Aberdeenshire (Dickie, 206). 

 Loch-na-gar (A. Croall, 1854, n. 161 in Herb. Brit). "On the 

 ledges of rocks near the top of the highest part of Snowdon " 

 (Banks, 1773, in Herb. Brit.). Common on the higher mountains 

 of the Scottish Highlands. Ben Lawers (Mackay in Herb. Smith). 

 Descends to 440 m. near Annacoona, Sligo. 



Var. Lapponum, Laestad. Perthshire (P. Ewing, ex "Fl. Perthsh." 

 390). See also A. Bennett in "Scott. Nat." 1889, 103. 



135. Poa laxa, Haenke (1791). Rocks on the Grampians of 

 Aberdeenshire and Inverness-shire up to noo m. (Hooker f., 

 "Stud. Fl. Brit. Isl." ed. 3, 493). First found on Ben Nevis (J. T. 

 Mackay, ex Smith, " Fl. Britannica," 101 [1800], Poa flexuosd). 



136. Poa stricta, Lindeb. (1856). First recorded on Loch-na- 

 gar (Syme, " Engl. Botany," xi. [1872] 116). 



137. Poa glauca, Vahl (1790). Ascends to 1000 m. on rocky 

 ledges in Aberdeenshire and Perthshire (Watson, Hooker, f., White). 

 Descends to 120 m. near Ben Lawers Inn (G. C. Druce, ex " Fl. 

 Perthsh." 352). 



(To be continued.} 



EUPHRASIA AND RHINANTHUS. 

 By WILLIAM H. BEEBY, F.L.S. 



Euphrasia. In Mr. Marshall's note (ante, p. 176) he observes, 

 " I believe that it is safer to follow Wettstein and Townsend 

 in regarding E. scottica as distinct." Doubtless it was so 

 when Wettstein's Monograph was published in I 896, but we 

 cannot afford to ignore all the subsequent developments, 

 although Mr. Marshall does not refer to them. In 1896 

 Wettstein wrote, when comparing E. scottica and E. minima 

 (" Mon." p. 171), "The sole distinction that I can see lies 

 in the length and form of the capsule ; in E. scottica it is 

 shorter than, or at most as long as, the calyx, while in 

 E. minima, when mature, it distinctly overtops the calyx." 

 Commenting on this, Townsend wrote (" Journ. of Bot," 1 897, 



