36 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Rumex Acetosa, L. A form with very thin leaves occurred in the 

 Spout of Lochnagar, at nearly 3000 feet altitude. 



Sparganium minimum, Fries. Near Ballater. 



fHabenaria viridis, J3r., var. bradeata, A. Gray ("Man. Bot.," N.U. 

 States, 5th ed. p. 530, 1867) ( = Coiloglossum viride, Hartm., 

 var. macrobracteatum, Schur. = Peristylus bracteatus, Lindley). 

 Herr Freyn agrees with me in thus naming our bracteate Frog 

 Orchis from the cliffs of Glen Callater, etc. 



Carex canescens, Z., var. robustior, Anderss. On Lochnagar, and 

 on the Clova tableland. 



fvar. dubia, Bailey. To this variety the Pfarrer Kiikenthal 

 refers all my very /le/zw/a-like sedges from the Clova table- 

 land, where it was particularly plentiful. He remarks : 

 " Strongly recalls C. helrola, with dark-coloured spikelets 

 and stiff stalk." 



C. aquatilis, Wahl. Between the type and var. epigeios, Fries, 

 but nearer the latter. From the tableland above Glen Callater. 



C. binervis, Sm., var. nigrescens^ Druce. The common form on the 

 cliffs of Glen Callater above 2000 feet. 



C. flava, L. A hybrid of this species " with either C. lepidocarpa, 

 Tausch, or possibly C. CEderi" teste Pfarrer Kiikenthal, occurred 

 on the cliffs of Glen Callater at 2000 feet. The specimens are 

 barren, the male spike is stalked, and the female spikes are 

 dense. I should think it is C. flava x lepidocarpa. 



C. trostrata, Stokes. In Glen Callater a form occurred which 

 Kiikenthal considers to be "a form verging into var. bninnescens" 

 Plants have been named as a hybrid of C. rostrata with vesicaria 

 from Glen Callater ; but I have not seen the latter species 

 growing there. Is there any record of its occurrence there ? 



Agrostis tenuis, Sibth. ("Fl. Oxon.," p. 36, 1794). This name 

 clearly precedes that of A. vulgaris, which was given to it by 

 Withering in the " Botanical Arrangement of British Plants," 

 3rd ed. vol. ii. p. 132, 1796. Sibthorp correctly diagnoses 

 the plant " panicula patente mutica, pedunculis subflexuosis, 

 culmo erecto, membrana foliorum obtusa. Fine panicled Bent- 

 grass "; while in A. alba the ligule is given as " acuminata" On 

 the cliffs of Corrie Ceannmor a stiff form, with more rigid leaves 

 than usual, occurred. 



A. pumila, L. Braemar, etc. 



A. alba, Z., f forma coarctata, Hackel, in litt. On the cliffs of 

 Glen Callater, at 2300 feet. 



A. alba, L., f forma sesquitertia, Hackel, /// litt. A curious form, 

 with a neuter floret above the hermaphrodite one, occurred on 



