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above plants has been recorded from Aberdeen, it may be worth a 

 note to state that I have met with both in this neighbourhood : the 

 former near estuaries, the latter plentifully around the small Loch 

 of Loirston in Kincardineshire, the only locality in Scotland for 

 Jiincus filiformis. 



L. negkctitm occurs beside the South Esk and the North Esk in 

 Forfarshire, extending also into South Kincardineshire. It is not 

 uncommon, though stunted, and readily overlooked, on a low part 

 of the links south of the River Don, often flooded by the river at 

 high tides. It also occurs on a back water from the river Ythan 

 near Newburgh, and along both shores of the estuary. It is usually, 

 if not almost always, situated where the water is only slightly brackish ; 

 and its structure, size, and relation in habitat to L. marginatum, 

 which I almost always find near at hand, but within the reach of 

 the spray, if not of the salt water itself, suggests that it is a weaker 

 representative, the relative weakness being due to less favourable 

 conditions of growth. The Pol. minus grows on rather a barren 

 beach, associated with P. Persicaria. Both frequently show very 

 dwarfish examples, though some examples that have the good fortune 

 to grow in rather better soil by the out-let stream reach quite a fair 

 size. Both species show a great tendency in this exposed situation 

 to assume a red-brown tint on all parts ; but this is much less 

 evident in the plants of Pol. minus that spring up in the water. 

 These are often of a distinctly, though dull, green tint. Dr. Roy 

 informs me that Lep. neglectum was brought to him from near Bervie, 

 and that he has " some recollection of having gathered it on the 

 Old Town Links, and at Newburgh. At both places, L. margin- 

 atum occurred." Of Pol. minus he tells me that " some years ago it 

 grew around the margin of an old disused mill-dam at Stoneywood 

 (a few miles north of Aberdeen). I believe the dam has been filled 

 up and the station destroyed. It also occurred, and probably does 

 so still, very sparingly, along with P. Hydropiper, on the margin of 

 Loch Kinnord."- -JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Lupinus perennis, Z., in Scotland. It is curious how long a 

 time it takes to introduce certain facts into books. Of this a good 

 example is afforded by the way in which British Floras appear re- 

 solved to ignore the presence of this Lupine as a denizen thoroughly 

 established in many parts of Scotland. It is extremely plentiful along 

 several of the larger rivers, along which it has spread rapidly down- 

 wards. Year by year the seeds, washed down from the higher grounds, 

 extend the range of the plant towards the mouth of each river. Its 

 effect on the banks and bed of the river is very marked in many 

 places ; and during the period of flowering, in early summer, the 

 beds of Lupines are not seldom a continuous sheet of blue and 

 purple. A beautiful example is seen at Cults, a few miles up the 

 Dee from Aberdeen. Here there is an island of some acres in 



