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in the district besides those in which I have seen it ; but even they 

 are sufficient to show that it is now somewhat widely distributed in 

 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire north of the Dee. Its presence 

 appears evidently due to importation among farm seeds ; but in view 

 of its occurrence in so widely distant places in the last three years, 

 it is strange that it had not been noticed previous to 1894. JAMES 

 W. H. TRAIL. 



Ranunculus fluitans, Lain., in N.E. Scotland. This aquatic 

 Ranunculus is, so far as I have observed, not met with in the 

 streams of Kincardineshire, nor in Aberdeenshire except in the 

 Deveron. In this river I found it in great abundance, in the end 

 of last August, from Turriff to Inverkeithnie, almost as the only 

 representative of its section of the genus. As the Deveron for some 

 distance above Turriff is the boundary between the counties of 

 Aberdeen and Banff, R. fluitans may be fairly included in the 

 lists for North Aberdeen, for which it does not stand on record. 

 It had been recorded previously from the Isla, a tributary of the 

 Deveron in Banffshire, as found by Rev. J. Keith, LL.D. JAMES 

 W. H. TRAIL. 



Flora of St. Kilda. On the return of the party that visited 

 Rockall at the end of last May, under the auspices of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, we cast anchor one dark wet morning in the Bay of 

 St. Kilda. Three hours ashore was all that was allowed to us, and 

 in that brief time I collected as many plants as possible. The flora 

 has already been well worked out by Mr. R. M. Barrington, who 

 spent three weeks on the island in June 1883, and published his 

 results in the "Journal of Botany" for 1886, and by Mr. Alexander 

 H. Gibson, whose list appears in the " Proceedings of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh," in the part issued October 1891. Their lists 

 combined give a flora of about 140 species. Of these, my three 

 hours' search revealed 104 species, and, in addition, two others, 

 Stellaria uliginosa and Equisetum palustre, which are not recorded 

 in either paper. Another, Sonchus asper, doubtfully recorded by 

 Mr. Barrington, I found near the village. The others of my list being 

 covered by those of Mr. Barrington or Mr. Gibson, or both, do not 

 appear to be worth publishing. R. LLOYD PRAEGER, Dublin. 



A Visit to the Loch of Spynie in search of Utrieularia 

 Bremii. In June last I paid a hurried visit to the above loch in 

 hopes of meeting with the plant which has been reported as Utri- 

 eularia Bremii. The loch, which is about four miles from Elgin, is 

 a breeding-place of the Black-headed Gull ; and the place is made 

 noisy by the shrill calls of the bird, which occurs in great quantity. 

 I may at once say that I was disappointed in the special object of 

 my search, for I was unable to see any species of Utrieularia ; but 

 time prevented me from working the marshes on the eastern side. 



