i8o ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



E. latifolia, Pursh. A curious small plant gathered on 

 top of the Brough of Birsay in Orkney, in August 1888, 

 Mr. Townsend thinks may be this. 



E. gracilis, Fr. On moors and in poor pastures ; widespread 

 in 91*, 92, 93, 94, 95*, and in in*, in Firth, by 

 seashore. 



E. scottica, Wettst. 88*, Corrie na Chait, Ben Lawers, 

 August 17, 1892; 92, on moor at Coull, near Tar- 

 land, August 1890; Scotston Moor, near Aberdeen, 

 August 1900; by Socaugh Burn in Towie, August 

 1897; 96, moor near Clava, Nairnshire, September 

 1897. 



E. Rostkoviana, Hayne. 92*, Hill of Coull, near Tarland, 

 August 1890; Potarch, on Deeside, September 1888; 

 94, near Cullen and Findochty, August 1895. 



Mr. Townsend also detected among the specimens for- 

 warded by me the hybrids brevipila X curt a, 92, Scotston Moor, 

 August 1900, and probably this from the Khoils of Glen 

 Muick, near Ballater, July 1888; brevipila x Rostkoviana, 

 92, Cairn Lea, in Strathdon, August 1897, probably this 

 from Scotston Moor, August 1900, and 94, near Dufftown, 

 August 1899; brevipila x scottica, Scotston Moor, August 

 1900. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Badger in Ayrshire. Mr. Richard Bolton, Glengarnock Lodge, 

 Kilbirnie, informs me that in April of the present year Andrew 

 Ferguson killed a female Badger (Meles faxus}, in young, close to 

 the march between Glengarnock and Blairpart. It was lying out 

 amongst some wet heather, and was left where it was killed. The 

 man had no idea of what it was ; and it was not until ten days after 

 its death that Mr. Bolton saw it. It was then past preserving. 

 There are no recent records of the occurrence of the Badger in 

 this district ; but the new " Statistical Account " (1845) vol. v., under 

 Kilbirnie, says that it was formerly met with in the glens, but is 

 no longer to be found. HUGH BOYD WATT, Glasgow. 



