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state in Scotland (in fact I cannot ascertain that more than the two 

 individuals noted in this communication have been hitherto recorded) 

 is my excuse for writing at such length on the subject. ROBERT 

 SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



Euehelia jaeobsese (Z.) in Midlothian. Perhaps the fact that I 

 caught a perfect specimen of the Cinnabar Moth on Blackford Hill, 

 Edinburgh, on 24th June this year may be worth recording. Al- 

 though a very common insect on the coasts of East Lothian and 

 Fife, I do not remember having ever seen it so far inland before. 

 Musselburgh is the only Midlothian locality given by Lowe and 

 Logan in their list of the Lepidoptera of the county. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Tsenioeampa graeilis (Fb.} in Arran and Upper Forth. In 

 my note on the occurrence of this moth at Oban in April 1894 

 ("Annals," 1896, p. 259) I omitted to mention that I had caught 

 a fresh specimen at Brodick, Arran, on 3oth April 1895. To these 

 captures I can now add a third, namely, a rather worn example taken 

 near Aberfoyle on ist June 1897. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Notes on British Plants. Under this heading Mr. Bennett 

 continues in the "Journal of Botany" (July, pp. 259-264) remarks 

 on the genus Carex. The following refer to Scottish examples : 



C. Goodenowii, Gay, var. y bitlbosa, Drej., gathered in 1896 by 

 Mr. A Somerville from sands near sea on Ayrshire coast. 



C. flacca, Schreb., var. y acitminata, Anders., from Outer 

 Hebrides; C. pelia, O. F. Lang, from Caithness, in July 1887, 

 J. Hanbury. 



C. panicea, var. hunidula, Laest., from Glen Carron, W. Ross, 

 gathered by Mr. Sewell ; C. vaginata, Tausch., ft sparsiflora, Hartm., 

 in several places in Scotland ; C. panicea, L., b. intermedia (Mieg.), 

 near Fort William, by Rev. E. S. Marshall ; C. capillaris, L., var. 

 major, gathered in Glen Shee by Mr. Ewing, and recorded by him 

 (" Glasg. N. H. Soc.," 1888, p. no) as var. alpestris, Anders. 



C. vesicaria x rostrata ( x Pannewitziana, Figert), found in Perth- 

 shire by Dr. F. B. White. 



Varieties of Plantago Coronopus. - - In the " Journal of 

 Botany" (July, pp. 257-259, pi. 371), a variety new to Britain 

 (ceratophyllon, Rapin) is described and figured from Dorsetshire, 

 and seven other varieties of the type are described briefly. Of 

 these forms, besides the type, the following have been recorded 

 from Scotland : pygmcza, Lange, found by Mr. Beeby in Yell in 

 Shetland, and maritima, Gren. and Godr., collected in Tiree in 



