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present in most nests in all of the five counties. WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Panisus Miehaeli, Koen, in Selkirkshire. This was first found by 

 Michael at Davos am Platz. It has since been recorded for Ireland 

 by Halbert, and has also been chronicled by Evans as occurring in the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Last September I found specimens 

 at the Loch of the Lowes, near the point where it is fed by the 

 stream named on the maps as Little Yarrow, but known locally by 

 another name. I also got one specimen of a nymph. WM. 

 WILLIAMSON. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



The High Alpine Flora of Britain. I have observed Saussurea 

 alpina at less than 300 feet on the hills south of Durness, W. 

 Sutherland ; and a very luxuriant, broad-leaved form from rocks on 

 the sea-shore near Thurso, Caithness, was annotated by its collector, 

 Mr. F. Crawford: "These plants must have been splashed by 

 the salt water." Cochlearia grcsnlandica is a strictly submaritime 

 species ; the alpine plants formerly referred to it are, as is noted in 

 "Journ. Bot.," 1894, p. 290, my C. micacea. I have cultivated 

 C. micacea for more than twenty years ; it is very constant, comes 

 true from seed, and is, in my opinion, quite distinct from C. alpina, 

 Wats., which retains its character equally well. I do not now think 

 that we have C. arctica, Schlecht., in Britain ; but there are some 

 unnamed Scottish coast plants in my herbarium which do not seem 

 to agree well with any known form especially one from the shore 

 of Loch Linnhe, near Fort William. Saxifraga quinquefida from 

 Ben Lawers is, I believe, the common Highland mountain plant 

 no\v usually assigned to S. sponhemica, and formerly called S. platy- 

 petala. S. grcenlandica (at least, the Brandon Mountain, Kerry, 

 form ; I have not seen it from Ben Lawers) comes very near 

 indeed to S. cccspitosa, the chief difference being in the narrower 

 and more acute foliage. It may be added that Dr. Williams's 

 Hieracium alpinnm is H. holosericeum, Backh., and that his Hawk- 

 weed names frequently differ from those adopted by Rev. W. R. 

 Linton in the "British Hieracia " (1905). EDWARD S. MARSHALL, 

 West Monkton Rectory, Taunton. 



Montia lamprosperma, Cham., in Scotland. My attention being 

 called by my friend Wm. Ostenfeld to the occurrence of our plant 

 in the Faroes, I was led to examine my Scottish specimens. I was 

 glad to find it represented in my herbarium by specimens I gathered 

 in Glen Dochart, Perth, in 1874 ; by others from Dornie and Glen 

 Docharty, West Ross, in 1881 ; from the Spout of Loch-na-Gar at 



