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Professor Hackel, to whom I sent specimens, refers it to the above 

 name. He considers it to be a variety of P. pratensis. The close com- 

 pact panicle distinguishes it from mountain forms of P. pratensis, 

 var. subccerulea (Sm.) It appears to be a fairly distinct variety, as is 

 evidenced by the opinions expressed. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



First Records of Scottish Flowering 1 Plants. Mr. W. A. 



Clarke, in his " First Records of British Flowering Plants " in the 

 " Journal of Botany " for January and February, enumerates the fol- 

 lowing from Scotland : 



Polygonatum verticillatum, All., 1793. "Arthur Bruce, Esq., 

 Secretary to the Natural History Society of Edinburgh, first found it, 

 ist July 1792, in the Den Rechip, a deep woody valley four miles 

 north-east of Dunkeld in Perthshire." " E. B.," 128. 



Allium Schcenoprasum, L., 1777. "By Faste-Castle, on the 

 borders of Berwickshire, Dr. Parsons." Lightfoot, " Fl. Scot.," 180. 



Juncus trifidus, L., 1777. " I found it upon the summits of the 

 Highland mountains to the south of Little Loch Broom in Ross- 

 shire," etc. Lightfoot, " Fl. Scot," 184. 



j. tennis, Willd., 1810. "Found by Mr. G. Don in 1795 or 

 1796 by the side of a rivulet, in marshy ground, among the moun- 

 tains of Angusshire,"--"E. B.," 2174 (as J. gradlis). 



J. balticus, Willd., 1821. "Sands of Barry, near Dundee, Mr. 

 Drummond."- -Hook, " Fl. Scot.," 104 (as J. arcticus). 



J. diffusus, Hoppe, 1843. Notice of a specimen sent to Mr. 

 W. Sender of Hamburg, from Kincardineshire. " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 xi. 78. 



J. castaneus, Sm., 1798. " Primus in Scotia invenit D. Dickson" 

 (J. Jacquini}. Symons's "Synopsis," 87. 



J. biglumis, L., 1777. "On the top of Mal-Ghyrdy, etc., in 

 Breadalbane, Mr. Stuart." Lightfoot, "Fl. Scot.," noo. 



The fourth fascicle of the Set of British Rubi, issued by the 

 Revs. E. F. Linton, Wm. R. Linton, R. P. Murray, and W. Moyle- 

 Rogers, and the second fascicle of the Set of British Willows, issued 

 by the Revs. E. F. Linton and Wm. R. Linton, have just been 

 issued. They are marked by the same care as the earlier fascicles 

 have manifested, alike in the selection and preparation and in the 

 adequate representation of the several forms included in them. An 

 inspection is sufficient to demonstrate the great value of such sets 

 of critical forms, and the impossibility of expressing by any descrip- 

 tion the differences in such a manner as to enable one, from a 

 description or even from figures, to make certain of recognising the 

 exact forms denoted under the names given by specialists. Hence 

 the aid afforded by such sets as the above is very important to 

 students of local floras. The present fascicle of Rubi includes Nos. 

 76-106, all from English localities. Eight of these are well-marked 



