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The following notes on the fascicle will be of interest to our readers. 

 No. 52, S. sesquitertia, F. B. White (aurita x phylidfolia x pur- 

 purea), from the bush at Thornhill from which the form was 

 originally described. *No. 54, S. Lapponum, L., from Ben Lawers 

 and rocks near it ; a form with broad leaves, greener than usual, and 

 some obscurely serrated. No. 55, 6". Caprea, L., with conspicuous 

 style, from Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. *No. 56, S. aurita x nigri- 

 cans, Heidenr., from Clova. *No. 57, aurita x Myrsinites- x 

 nigricans (?), from high up the slopes of Meall Garbh, Mid Perth ; 

 determined as this hybrid by F. B. W., and shown to be so by 

 cultivation. No. 58, S. ludificans, F. B. W. (aurita x phylidfolia), 

 from New Loch, Thornhill, in which aurita preponderates. *No. 

 59, S. ludificans, from Clova, in which phylidfolia predominates, as 

 usual. No. 60, S. ambigua, Ehr. (aurita x repens}, (i)from Lochsie 

 Burn, Glen Shee, and (*2) from Clova, the latter with broader leaves, 

 rounded, and only shortly mucronate at tip. No. 63, S. subsericea, 

 Doll., from Sutherland coast near Armadale, cultivated in a garden 

 in Derbyshire ; this was regarded by F. B. White as Caprea x repens 

 (Revision, p. 394), but after six years of careful study the Messrs. 

 Linton feel convinced that it is dnerea x repens, and believe that 

 Dr. White's dnerea x repens (Revision, 393-394) is only strong 

 repens. *No. 64, S. nigricans, Sm., two leiocarpa plants one from 

 Clova, the other from Meall Garbh. *No. 65, 5. nigricans, Sm., 

 from high level on Ben Lawers, low-growing, green and glabrous, 

 believed to show by foliage a remote strain of Arbuscula. No. 66, 

 6". phylidfolia, L., a leiocarpa form from Lybster in Caithness, 

 cultivated in Derbyshire. No. 67, S. simulatrix, F. B. White 

 (Arbuscula x herbacea], from Meall-na-Saone. Nos. 68-71, an 

 interesting set of forms of S. repens, L., showing uselessness of even 

 varietal names. *No. 73, S. Myrsinites, L., from Glen Fiagh, 

 Forfarshire ; a curious form which may owe shape and size of 

 leaves to a strain of nigricans. *No. 74, S. punctata, Wahl. (Myr- 

 sinites x nigricans}, from Glen Fiagh. No. 75, S. sobrina, F. B. 

 White (herbacea x Lapponum} : (i) from rocks north of Ben Lawers, 

 where it was found with flowers of both sexes in fair quantity ; (2) 

 the same, smaller, as cultivated in Derbyshire. 



Juneus supinus, Manck. It would be interesting to know 

 which is the prevailing form of this plant in the west of Scotland. 

 I have examined several hundred specimens on the west coast of 

 Inverness-shire, and have found in every case, with I think three or 

 four exceptions, that the plant had six stamens, with filaments nearly 

 twice as long as the elliptical anthers, being, I suppose, the var. 

 Kochii, Bab. This refers to the land form, which occurs up to at 

 least 2800 ft. alt. I think, however, that the hill plant has filaments 

 relatively shorter to the anthers than the low-ground form. All the 

 specimens I have examined in Skye, Eigg, and the north of Mull, 



