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to be recorded from Iceland or the Faroes). Central (Alps, 

 etc.) Europe to middle Russia and France. 



In Asia East, West, and Southern Siberia ; Kamts- 

 chatka. 



North America from the Saskatchewan and Lake 

 Winnipeg southwards to Virginia, and across the continent 

 from east to west. 



Australian Alps. 



The principal names it occurs under are : 



Carexfusca, Allioni : " Fl. Fed," vol. 2, 269 (1785). 



C. polygama, Schkuhr : " Riedgraser," I, 84 (1801). 



C. subulata, Schumacher : " Enum. PL Saell.," 270 (i 801). 



C. Buxbaumii, Wahl. : "Vet. Akad. Stockh.," 163 (i 8o 3> 



C. canescens, Lin. herb., fide Hook, and Arnott, " Brit. 

 Flora," ed. 8, p. 507 (1860). 



" English Botany Supp.," t. 2885. 



Moore and More: " Cybele Hibernica," p. 329 (1866). 



Bailey, in " Memoirs Torrey. Bot. Club," No. i, 63 (1889). 



Certainly one of the most interesting additions to the 

 Scottish Flora that have been made in late years, and a 

 promise of others when all its lochs shall have been carefully 

 and systematically examined. 



Of our species, C. fusca most nearly resembles in appear- 

 ance a vulgaris form without the male spikes, and the fruit 

 without a beak (or an exceedingly short one), and the stigmas 

 three. I have seen specimens for Sutherland with much 

 the facies offusca, but they were only vulgaris forms. 



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Capture of a Badger on the Pentland Hills. On the 26th of 

 May last a fine male Badger (Meles taxus), which I saw shortly after- 

 wards, was dug out of a deep burrow on Boghall Hill, near the 

 eastern extremity of the Pentlands, and within four miles of Edin- 

 burgh, by the shepherd and other servants on Boghall Farm, who, up 

 to the last moment, were under the impression that the " earth " was 

 tenanted by a fox. There can be little doubt the animal is one 

 which made its escape a week or two before from Craiglockhart, 

 where it had been kept in confinement for some time. The occur- 

 rence is therefore scarcely worth putting on record, except to prevent 

 future misunderstanding. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



