40 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



species occurring on it, so that there must be something in the 

 ecological conditions in Orkney that has yet to be studied 

 before the " reason why " can be learnt as to the absence of 

 these two. 



L. FORSTERI, DC. The record of this by R. Dick is a puzzle. 

 Yet in the " Supplement " to Nyman's " Consp. Fl. Europ." 

 314, 1890, it is given from "Scotia" on the authority of Dr. 

 Buchanan, our best authority on the Juncacese. I wrote to 

 him, and in his reply he says, "The notice is apparently in- 

 correct, and I have therefore omitted it in the ' Monograph 

 Juncacese' (Engl. 1890, xii. p. 79)." 



In no sense is it a northern plant, but it is given for the 

 Alps by Dr. Roth. 1 It does not reach Denmark, and although 

 reported for Oldenburg (1823) by Nolte, the plant was a form 

 of L. pilosus, Willd. 2 It is given for Ayr in the " Botany 

 of Ayrshire," 1882, by Messrs. Borland, Duncan, and 

 Landsborough. 



TYPHA LATIFOLIA, L. Duran, R. Dick, 1863. 



TRIGLOCHIN MARITIMUM, L. Near mouth of Wick River, J. Grant. 



T. PALUSTRE, L. Watten Loch, D. Lillie, sp. ; Wick River, J. 

 Grant. 



SCIRPUS PALUSTRIS, L. Dunnet to Brough, " Scot. Alp. Club " ; 

 Stemster Loch, Watten, D. Lillie, sp. 



var. MAJOR, Asch. and Gracbn. (Heleocharis palustris, var. 

 /3 major, Sonder, " Fl. Hamb. 22, 1851). Wick River,}. 

 Grant, sp., "2 feet high, spikes i inch." 



S. UNIGLUMIS, Link, var. PUMILA, Boenn. - - Stroma Isle, Miss 

 Geldart, sp. Extensively creeping, with tufts of stems about 

 every two inches, 2-3 inches high, spikes subrotund. I have 

 it like this from W. Cornwall (Scilly Isles, as 6". pauciflonts, 

 1876, W. Curnow) and the Outer Hebrides. Marsson, " Fl. 

 New. Vor. Pommern," 512, 1869, mentions that it has been 

 named S. PAUCIFLORUS, Light. Dr. A. Blytt (in Veget. ved. 

 Sognefjord, 91, 1869) has a stib-sp. rotundata of which he says, 

 " I Habitus meget lig Scirpus pauciflorus." This may be the 

 same as the above, as the only distinction he gives is " Axene 

 nsesten kuglerunde." Ordinary S. uniglumis grows among 

 Carex kattegatensis, near the variety. 



S. PAUCIFLORUS, Light/ . Stemster Loch, D. Lillie, sp. ; Yarehouse 

 Loch, J. Grant, sp. ; Wick, W. W. Reeves, sp. 



S. C^SPITOSUS, L. Bilbster Moss, D. Lillie, sp. 



1 "Add. Consp. Fl. Europ." 40, 1886. 



* "Prahl. Kr. Fl. Schl.-Holst.," 228, 1890. 



