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Bordeaux," xxxv. 386 (iSSi); S. stricta, var. a alpina, Fries, 

 " Novit. Fl. Suecic." ed. 2, 58 (1828). 



Its continental distribution includes Sweden, Norway, Finland, 

 France, and N. Italy. 



89. Sagina Littncei, Presl. Ascends to the summit of Ben 

 Lawers ("Fl. Perthsh." 86). "At great heights even near the 

 summit of Ben Lawers" (R. Brown, 1794, in Herb. Brit.). 

 Smith ("Fl. Britannica," ii. 504 [1800]) says, "Mr. J. Mackay 

 gathered it on Ben Lawers in 1794." Hooker, however ("Fl. 

 Scotica," 145 [1821]), thinks it was first found by G. Don previously 

 on Meall Ghaordie. Some other plants gathered here by G. Don 

 are dated 1793. Ben Lawers, a series of examples gradually 

 passing from the erect hardy rooting form of the summit into the 

 ordinary procumbent more or less rooting form which descends 

 to 762 m. (E. S. Marshall, 1887, in Herb. Brit.). Between 

 945-1022 m. on Ben Lawers (Prof. Balfour, 1864, in Herb. Brit.). 

 Ascends to 1070 m. on Ben Ein (W. R. Brunton, 1864, 

 E. S. Marshall, 1887, in Herb. Brit.). Corrie near summit of 

 Stob-Coire-an-Easain-Mhor, above Loch Triag, 1891, Herb. Brit. 

 ex herb. J. H. Morgan). Ben Lawers (J. Mackay, 1794, in Herb. 

 Kew.); Meall Ghaordie (Herb. Kew. ex herb. Dawson Turner, 

 dated 1789), "This is the earliest British specimen of the plant 1 

 have seen, and is very probably one gathered by G. Don, referred 

 to above, as it is among Hooker's Scottish plants. Ascends to 

 1006 m. on the Grampians of Aberdeenshire " (G. C. Druce in " Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist." 1900, p. 168). 



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ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Pygmy Shrew 2000 Feet above Sea-level. In November a 

 Shrew was sent to me, which had been found crossing a snow-patch 

 at an altitude of at least 2000 feet, by Mr. Ferguson, head stalker 

 of Coiynafearn deer forest. It was subsequently identified at the 

 Royal Scottish Museum as a specimen of the Pygmy or Lesser 

 Shrew S. minutus. It will be remembered that one of these little 

 animals has been recorded from the summit of Ben Nevis. CHAS. 

 H. ALSTON, Letterawe, Loch Awe. 



The Occurrence of Phylloseopus borealis, not P. viridanus, 

 at Sule Skerry : a Correction. In the "Annals" for 1903, p. 22, 

 I recorded the occurrence of the Greenish Willow Warbler (P. 

 viridanus) at the Sule Skerry lantern on 5th September 1902 ; and 

 on 22nd October 1902, the late Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited this 

 specimen at the British Ornithologist's Club, and confirmed my iden- 



