BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS 55 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sehcenus ferruginous, L. This plant is not yet quite extinct 

 on the shore of Loch Tummel, although I fear that it will soon be 

 so. I paid a visit to the locality in the beginning of August, but 

 was unable to discover any trace of it. Mr. A. H. Evans of 

 Cambridge, who visited the spot a week or two later, was more 

 fortunate. He found a small patch "about as big as your hands 

 would cover, dreadfully mixed with grass, in fact nearly overgrown 

 by it." It is difficult to understand how this plant, which was fairly 

 abundant in its station a dozen years ago, should now have all but 

 disappeared. W. BARCLAY, Perth. 



Linnsea borealis, L. In the middle of August Mr. Archibald 

 Gray, a local botanist, found this plant on a wooded hill situated 

 a short distance to the north-east of the Hill of Kinnoull. On 

 visiting the place subsequently in the company of Mr. Gray I 

 found the Linncea covering the ground more or less thickly over an 

 area of about 40 feet by 9 or 10. It was growing amidst blaeberry 

 and grass. There were no traces of flowers, as the flowering time 

 was past ; but I think flowers will be found at the proper season, for 

 the ground at this part is quite open. The Linncea is recorded in 

 Hooker's "Flora Scotica" of date 1821 as having been found on 

 Kinnoull Hill itself by the Messrs. Brown, who were, I think, 

 nurserymen in Perth ; but I do not know of its having been found 

 there or anywhere in the neighbourhood subsequent to that date. 

 W. BARCLAY, Perth. 



Asarum europseum, L. In May last I found a fine patch of 

 this plant, covering an area of about a yard square, on the right 

 bank of the Tay about 3^ miles below Perth. It must have 

 been brought to the place where it grows either by water or 

 by birds, but where it could come from I cannot say. The plant 

 is, I believe, sometimes cultivated, and it possibly may have come 

 down the river from some garden. At any rate it is well established, 

 and must have been where it is for two or three years at least. 

 When I found it there were plenty of flowers. W. BARCLAY, 

 Perth. 



Ranunculus aeer, L. Mr. Townsend ("Journ. Bot," Oct. 1900) 

 describes the forms known to him as British, and gives a dichotomous 

 key to the sub-species and forms. He records those from Scotland 

 as follows: Sub-sp. I. Bortzanus^ form i, Boraanus (Jordan), 

 Aberdeenshire, var. (3 tomophyUiis (Jordan), Aberdeenshire and 

 Inverness-shire, form 2, retfus, Boreau, Aberdeenshire and Shetland 

 (Beeby), sub-var. pumihts, Shetland (Beeby) ; sub-sp. II. Stevent, 

 Andrz., Shetland (Beeby); sub-sp. III. Friesianns, form i, rulgatus 



