250 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



A full account of the plant will be found in the Linnean Society's 

 "Journal," pp. 125-128, 1888 (with an excellent drawing by Miss 

 Smith), by Mr. N. C. Brown. 



The Caithness plant may at once be known from V. Myrtillus 

 by the rounded stem, the much more entire leaves, only here and 

 there with a crenation, and being evergreen (though a few leaves do 

 fall in Staffordshire) from V. Vitis-idtea by the leaves wanting the 

 characteristic glandular-punctate dots (here and there stipitate glands 

 do occur) on the under surface, and the margins not being revolute 

 (only slightly recurved) and not so entire. With more of the 

 characters of the latter, the aspect is more that of V. Myrtillus. 

 ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Carex riparia, Curt., in Caithness. Mr. D. Doull of Bower has 

 kindly sent a specimen of the above Carex, an additional species to 

 the known flora of Caithness. 



It was gathered in West Ross (Co. 105) by Mr. Ewing, 1 but is 

 not noticed by Mr. Druce in his paper on that Flora ; also from 

 East Ross (Co. 106), but both are queried by Dr. Trail (' Top. Bot. z 

 of Scotland,' "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 36, 1900); and there is an 

 old record of the Outer Hebrides (Macgillivray). It is on record 

 from Banff (Birkenbog (near TurrifF) Rev. G. Gordon, " Coll. Fl. 

 Moray," 27, 1839). ^ n Kincardine it rests very doubtfully on the 

 Stat. Account. In Aberdeen three localities (two on doubtful 

 authority) are given ; in Dickie's " Botanist's Guide," Dr. Trail has 

 found it on the coast in North Aberdeen ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 

 176, 1901). It was found in Easterness (E. Inverness) in 1888 by 

 Mr. Druce. Mr. Doull's specimen takes it farther north (about 

 58 31' N. Lat.) than any other certain or uncertain record. C. 

 acutiformis, Ehrh. (C. paludosa, Good.) occurs very near the same 

 latitude by the Isauld Burn, whence it was sent me by Mr. W. F. 

 Miller. 



In Sweden C. riparia extends to Gefleborgs Ian (about 62 

 N. Lat.), and it occurs, but rarely, in South Norway. 



In Finland it occurs, though rarely, at 61 15' N. Lat, but it is 

 entirely wanting from mid and north Finland and from Russian 

 Lapland. It is not given by Warming in his Tables of the Green- 

 land, Iceland, and Faroe Floras, 1888; nor by Ostenfeld in his 

 " Fl. Arctica," 1902; but it extends north in North America to 

 James Bay and Cumberland House above Lake Winnipeg, 55 

 N. Lat., where the winter cold is much more intense than in 

 Caithness. A. BENNETT. 



The Sea Lyme Grass (Elymus arenarius, L.) in North-east 

 Scotland. This is now one of the most conspicuous plants along 



1 "The Glasgow Cat. of Native and Estab. Plants," 143, 1899. 

 2 "Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh," xx. 165, 1894. 



