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I examined all round the lake thoroughly, and crossed and 

 recrossed the boggy ground, and was rewarded by finding 

 four additional patches of the plant. Three of them, like the 

 first station, are on the west side of the loch, and close to it ; 

 the other is on the north side, in the midst of the swamp, and 

 20 or 30 yards from the lake. Each of the patches is, 

 roughly speaking, about the same size (8 or 10 square yards), 

 but not any of the new stations are so full of the plant as 

 the first one. So far as I could see, there are no connecting 

 links between the different stations ; stragglers from the 

 main body do not extend far." 



It grows associated with such plants as Erioplwrum 

 angustifoliwn, Drosera, sps., Carex filiformis, C. fulva, a 

 var. (?) of C. Goodenovii, Rhinanthus, Galiuin pahistre, Equise- 

 tinn limosum, a very narrow-leaved form of Orchis maculata, 

 RJiynclwspora alba, a form of Agrostis (?), of the name of 

 which as yet I do not feel certain, etc. 



The loch is situated " in a slight hollow amongst the low 

 hills (or rather knolls), many of them wooded, which are one 

 peculiarity of the district. Its height above sea-level is 

 certainly under 100 feet. The highest land above the side 

 of the loch where the Carex grows is about 400 feet ; but it 

 does not rise directly from the loch there is a considerable 

 breadth of boggy moorland, with a very slight rise. The 

 loch itself seems to have a peaty bottom. It is a great place 

 for white Water-Lilies, also for Scirpus Taberncemontani. 



My friend has, with living specimens of the Carex, kindly 

 sent a list of the plants (and numerous vouchers) of the 

 district, which seems to be a very interesting one. I hope 

 he will publish this list after I have collated it with " Topo- 

 graphical Botany," etc. 



In " English Botany" Dr. Boswell Syme mentions (under 

 Carex vulgaris], from Clackmannanshire, a plant as greatly 

 resembling some of the dark-spiked forms of C. Buxbaumii, 

 but proving to be a form or monstrosity of C. vulgaris. 



No record of the species has hitherto been made from Great 

 Britain. On the Continent it is recorded from thirteen pro- 

 vinces of Sweden, North and South Norway "to 70 f, Th. 

 Fries," Lapland, nineteen of the botanical provinces of Fin- 

 land to " Paatsjoki, 69 " teste Wainio ; (but it does not seem 



