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AVIA CRESPITOSA, Z., var, PSEUDO-ALPINA, Syme. Clisham, Dr. 



Shoolbred. 

 A. FLEXUOSA, Z., var. MONTANA, Hook, f. Clisham, Dr. Shoolbred. 



CATABROSA AQUATICA, Beauv., var. LITTORALIS, Parn. Sea-coast, 



west side of Benbecula, Dr. Shoolbred. 

 POA NEMORALIS, L. Old wall of Hotel Garden, Tarbert, Harris, 



Dr. Shoolbred. Native? 

 GLYCERIA FLUITANS, R. Br., var. TRITICA, Fr. Marsh near Loch 



Maddy Hotel, N. Uist, Dr. Shoolbred. 



FESTUCA SCIUROIDES, Roth. Wall top, east side of Loch Maddy. 

 This is reported in "Top. Bot.," ed. 2 ; but I cannot learn on 

 what authority. 



AGROPYRON JUNCEUM, Beauv. Coast near Balleloch, N. Uist, Ben- 

 becula, Dr. Shoolbred. 



ELYMUS ARENARIUS, L. Small islet in Loch Maddy, N. Uist. (" Of 

 very rare occurrence," Macgillivray.) Dr. Shoolbred confirms 

 this old record of 1831. 



Dr. Shoolbred's paper and Mr. Duncan's additions show 

 that time spent in these islands will not be without good 

 results ; there is yet more to be done by willing hands. 



CAREX FUSCA, ALLIONI, IN SCOTLAND. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



IN a parcel of plants kindly sent me by my friend Mr. W. 

 F. Miller from Inverness (Westerness, Co. 97) I was much 

 pleased to find a specimen of the above Carex. It has been 

 known as an Irish plant (as C. Buxbaumii, Wahl.) since I 835, 

 in which year it was discovered by Mr. D. Moore on an 

 island in Lough Neagh, near Toom-Bridge. 



In its Scottish habitat it occurs in five distinct places 

 around and near a loch in the district of Arisaig. I cannot 

 do better than give, in my friend's own words, his account 

 of his second visit to the loch to see its extent and surround- 

 ings : " I went to the place again last evening, and thoroughly 

 explored the loch, a matter of some difficulty, as, besides the 

 swampy nature of the ground, there are several deep water, 

 courses too wide to jump, which have to be taken in flank 



