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Scottish Cariees. The Pfarrer Kiikenthal has kindly examined 

 a few critical sedges which I gathered in Scotland last July. One 

 of them is a previously undescribed British form Carex Goodenowii, 

 Gay, var. stenocarpa, Kiikenthal. This I found in marshes at the 

 head of Loch Tummel, Mid Perth ; by the Tay, near Perth ; in 

 Glen Fiagh, Forfar ; and by the Tweed near Melrose, Roxburgh. 

 I have it also from Thurso, Caithness ; Lawers, Perth ; Boat of 

 Garten, Easterness ; and Kinlochewe, West Ross. A curious plant 

 from the Tummel swamps Kiikenthal says is C. Goodenowii, f. ad 

 tomatam, Fr. vergens. 



Var. chlorostachya (Reichb.), Druce, " Fl. Berks," p. 542, Strath 

 Tummel, Lawers, Mid Perth ; Boat of Garten, Easterness ; Kinloch- 

 ewe, West Ross ; Loch Durran, Caithness ; Dingwall, East Ross ; 

 Mallaig, Westerness, etc. Var. recta, Kiikenthal, Methuen Bog, 

 Mid Perth. Kiikenthal thought that this might possibly have been 

 crossed with C. rigida. I thought it showed evidences of C. 

 aquatilis, it is away from the range of rigida. 



C. panicea, var. tumidula, Laest, Strath Tummel, Mid Perth; 

 Come Li, East Ross, etc. 



C.flava x (Ederi, Glen Fiagh and Glen Dole, Forfar. 



C. (Ederi, Retz., Loch Tummel, Mid Perth. 



C. lepidocarpa, Tausch, Glen Dole, Forfar. 



C. rostrata, Stokes, var. rolutsta, Sender ; marsh near Loch 

 Tummel, Mid Perth. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



THE LAND MAMMALS OF THE CLYDE FAUNAL AREA. Hugh 

 Boyd Watt. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow', vol. vii. (N.S.), part ii. 

 (1903-1904), pp. 170-189 (published November 1905). Notes on 

 some forty-four species, recent and extinct. 



RARE BIRDS IN ABERDEENSHIRE. George Sim. Zoologist, 

 December 1905, p. 466. This note refers to a Great Snipe shot 

 near the mouth of the River Ythan, 5th September ; a Roller shot at 

 Auchmeden, near Aberdour, 9th September ; and a Black-tailed 

 Godwit obtained at the Ythan estuary, iath September. 



