240 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



P. Boehmeri, Wibel. Specimens of a Phkum gathered at Slateford 

 and Leith Docks in July seem to be of this species. 



Calamagrostis epigeios, Roth. Charlestown, Fife, a large patch, 

 1902-3-4. 



Wangenheimia disticha, Moench. Mouth of the Esk, Musselburgh, 

 June 29, a solitary specimen. 



Schlerocloa dura, Beauv. Leith Docks, July, a single plant. 



Triticum (sEgilops) ovatnm, Rasp. Leith Docks, July, one plant. 



AJUGA PYRAMIDALIS, L., AS A SCOTTISH 



SPECIES. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



REPORTED many years ago as a Carnarvon plant, 1 its only 

 certain English locality is on Hill Bell, Westmorland (a hill 

 of 2474 feet elevation), where it occurs between 900 and 

 i 800 feet. Mr. Backhouse, the finder, records it as occurring 

 in plenty and in great beauty. 



In Scotland its distribution is peculiar, and very difficult 

 to understand. In Scandinavia, contrary to what occurs 

 with us, A. reptans, L., is a rare species, occurring only in the 

 southern provinces of Sweden, i.e. Skane, Halland, Blekinge, 

 and Smaland, and again in S. Norway, while A. pyramidalis 

 occurs in every province from Skane right up to Nordland, 

 Lapland, N. and S. Norway and in five of the southern 

 botanical provinces of Finland. In Norway it grows up to 

 3500 feet and 5000 feet. In Scotland the highest record I 

 know of is in Dumfries at 1750 feet; but it may occur 

 higher, as there are specimens in Herb. British Museum, 

 " Hort. Croydon, D. Dickson, 2 root from Ben Nevis " ; but 

 I have been unable to find any reference as to its height on 

 this mountain. 



The first actual record with station of this species in 

 Scotland seems to be in Hudson's " Flora Anglica," ed. 2, 

 249 (1778) "Supra montem Ben Nevis in Scotia, D. 

 Hope." 



1 Not named in Griffith's " Flora of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire," 1895. 



2 Dickson (1738-1822) had a garden at Broad Green, Croydon, in which he 

 grew many native plants. 



