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In "Top. Botany," eds. i and 2, Vice-County 76, Renfrew, is 

 tfiven within square brackets (i.e. as a probable error). I have not 

 been able to trace Watson's authority for this view as I can find 

 no mention of it in the Index to Vols. 1-5 (1851-1883) of the 

 " Proceedings of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow," or elsewhere. 

 Perhaps some reader of the " Annals " can supply this information. 



There is no reason why it should not occur in Scotland, as it is 

 found in S.-W. Yorkshire certainly, and in Sweden up to Norland, 

 in Norway both in north and south, and in Finland. 



One of the districts that occurs to me as likely to be a station 

 for it is Kenmore Holms in Kirkcudbrightshire, which, from the 

 description of Mr. J. McAndrew (who has found Carex elongata, L., 

 and Calamagrostis lanceolata, Roth., there) seems to be very like 

 some of its Norfolk habitats. I hope that Mr. Watt will be able to 

 examine the station given in Dumbarton next year. 



It is certainly a species that should be kept in mind by Scotch 

 botanists. I shall be glad to send dried specimens, or to examine 

 any supposed specimens. ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Scottish Pansies. In 'Some British Violets, II.' ("Journal of 

 Botany, 1901, pp. 220-227), Mr. Edmund G. Baker discusses and 

 describes the forms of hilly or mountainous districts. He notes the 

 following from Scotland : V. lutea, Huds., var. amosna, subvar. nov. 

 insignis (I.e., p. 2 2 2 ), Craig na Caillich, above Finlarig, and Ben Lawers ; 

 V. Sagoti, Jordan, near Forfar, Ballater and Braemar, coll. G. C. 

 Druce, det. Professor Freyn ; V. lepida, Jordan, Spittal of Glen Shee, 

 coll. J. G. Baker, 1860, det. Boreau, and perhaps near Fort George. 



Matriearia diseoidea, DC. During August of this year I resided 

 in the parish of Aberdour in the north-west corner of the Aberdeen- 

 shire seaboard ; and I found the Rayless Chamomile so thoroughly 

 established in Aberdour and neighbouring parishes that there can 

 be no doubt of its having become a permanent settler, with the 

 certainty of extending its range. From Rosehearty, in Pitsligo, 

 where it first was observed as formerly stated, it has spread along 

 every road for several miles, to Fraserburgh on the east, into Tyrie 

 southwards almost to New Pitsligo, and to Gardenstone in the west, 

 thus bringing it into the parish of Gamrie and county of Banff. It 

 is now by far the commonest weed in and around Rosehearty, and 

 its dispersal is easily traced from this centre inland, wherever any 

 carting has occurred of sand or other materials. It grows now 

 around almost every farm steading (often in great abundance) in 

 the parishes of Pitsligo and Aberdour, and in great part of Tyrie, and 

 is gradually spreading into Fraserburgh and Gamrie. From the 

 steadings it is carried along the field roads, and seems likely soon 

 to become a pest of agriculture. It has not yet reached a railway 

 station, but when it does so it will probably be spread by traffic far 

 and wide in a few years. In Ireland its dispersal has been extremely 



