ALIEN PLANTS NEAR EDINBURGH 105 



PALM^E. 



Phcenix dactylifera, L. 1,5, y*. 



GR AMINES. 



Bromus Alopecuros, Pair, i, y. Polypogon maritimus, Willd. 5, 

 B. japonicus, Thnnb. i, y"\ /3 in 1902 ; y in 1903.* 



Cornucopias cucullatum, L. 5, Poa bulbosa, Z., rar. vivipara. 



a. i,e. 



Eragrostis major, Host. 5, y. Setaria glauca, Bcauv. 5, /?. 



Hordeum sylvaticum, Huds. 5, Trisetum pumilum, Kiintli. 5, /5. 



/?. Wangenheimia disticha, Ma-nch. 

 Psilurus nardoides, 7>/;/. 5, /?. 5, a, 1903. 



NOTES. 



Hedysamm coronarium, L., was found by the late Mr. Allistair 

 Murray in 1903 near Slateford, but was not then recorded. In 

 September last I saw two or three in the same place. 



Phcenix dactylifera^ L., I take to be the name of the tree which 

 bears the common date of commerce, seedlings of which, with leaves 

 four or five inches in length, I had in previous years observed in 

 Leith, Slateford, and other places. At Slateford this year in a warm 

 hollow a considerable number of much taller ones were seen, one 

 of which measured 18 inches from tip of root to tip of leaf. 



Polypogon maritimus, Willd. This plant I gathered in Leith 

 Docks in 1902 and in 1903, but it is only now that I am able to 

 record it by the kindness of Professor Hackel to whom a specimen 

 was sent for identification. Professor Hackel remarks that it 

 " differs from the type by its lobed panicle, which I never saw in 

 typical specimens, nor found recorded in the literature." He there- 

 fore named it P. maritimus, \\.,fonua (nova) lobata, Hackel. 



To Professor Hackel I am also indebted for the identification 

 of Bromus japonicus, Thunb., Triticitm oratum, Gren. and Godr. 

 (^gilops ovata, L.), and Polypogon monspeliensis, Desf. 



\Demazeria loliacea, Nym. (Festitca rottb&Uioides, Kunth). My 

 note on this plant in the "Annals Scot. Nat. Hist." for April 1904, 

 may be somewhat misleading. There grew in 1902 and still grow, 

 in what may be described as a crevice in the rocks quite near to 

 the place where it once grew in great plenty, three or four little 

 clumps each bearing two or three spikes yearly. It is therefore not 

 extinct in the county of Edinburgh.] 



LEITH, December 1905. 



