260 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Juncus tenuis, Willd., in Moidart. I found one plant of this 

 rush last August in the centre of a disused road in this district. 

 This is probably its first year of flowering, as I could hardly other- 

 wise have failed to have noticed it before. There were seventy- 

 seven flowering stems in the tuft. As American hay has frequently 

 been brought into the district of late years, it strengthens the 

 suggestion that \.\\e Juticus has been introduced into Britain by this 

 means. This locality for the plant has no connection with that of 

 Arisaig previously recorded ; as, although they are but twenty miles 

 apart, there is only a bridle path between the districts, which are 

 also supplied from different centres. SYMERS M. MACVICAR. 



Myurium Hebridarum, Sc/ip., in Tiree. I found this rare moss 

 last July in a few places on Scarinish Moor in this island. It is 

 easily recognised at sight by its dense golden tufts of some inches 

 in breadth. It has been previously found on some of the islands 

 of the Outer Hebrides, and at Loch Coruisk in Skye ; but nowhere 

 else in Britain, I believe. It is not known to occur in any other 

 part of Europe, but has been found in the Canaries. SYMERS M. 

 MACVICAR. 



Peziza ammophila, D. and M., in East Lothian. On the i;th 

 of August 1896 I found a single plant of this local fungus growing 

 on the sandhills at the far end of Luffness Links in East Lothian. 

 So far as I know, this is the first record for " Forth." As a Scottish 

 plant, P. ammophila was first detected about twenty years ago at 

 St. Andrews, where I found it still in plenty in 1890. The " Annals " 

 for 1893 contains an interesting article on the species by Professor 

 Trail, who, I may add, has seen the Luffness specimen. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Carex from Ben Lawers. I have gathered a Sedge on Ben 

 Lawers that is either Carex helvola or C. viarilenla. G. C. DRUCE. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural His- 

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ZOOLOGY. 



DAUBENTON'S BAT IN ARGYLESHIRE. Charles Campbell. The 

 Field, 3ist July 1897, p. 222. A short account given of a colony 

 found last June in Kinlochaline Castle. 



