20 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Rumex acetosa, Polygonum vivifiarum, Carex rigida, lestuca 

 ovifia. Of course, many other species grow 50 or 100 feet 

 lower. 



Perth, Dec, 1874. 



New Scottish Plants. — During the excursion in August last of the 

 "Scottish Alpine Club" to Braemar, Mr. John Sadler was fortunate 

 enough to discover two flowering plants not previously found in Britain. 

 One of them is a sallow, which has been described by Dr. Boswell Syme 

 under the name of Salix Sadleri. It is probably, we understand, a hybrid 

 between S. reticulata and -5". lapponum or lanata. The other plant is Carex 

 frigida All. It may be briefly described (after Godron) thus:— Male 

 spikelet solitary, blackish, oblong; female spikelets (about 4) dense, 

 cylindrical, at first erect, then drooping, streaked with brown and green, 

 the upper ones approximate and almost sessile, the lower somewhat remote 

 and long stalked. Bracts herbaceous, long-sheathed, nearly reaching the 

 male spikelet. Fertile glumes shorter than the fruit, linear, acute, 

 mucronate, of a black brown with the keel green or reddish. Stigmas 

 three. Fruit glabrous fusiform-trigonous, brown with a green border, 

 insensibly attenuated into a plano-convex beak, which is bifid and ciliate on 

 the margins. Nut brown, long-stalked, elliptic-trigonous and dotted. 

 Leaves bright green, plane, keeled linear acuminate, the edges rough. 

 Stem erect, triquetrous, for the most part smooth. Root stoloniferous. 

 C. frigida is a not uncommon alpine species. The finding of these plants 

 in such a compatively well searched locality as Glen Callater, proves that 

 the list of native plants is not yet exhausted. (We may mention that Carex 

 ornithopoda Willd. has been found in Derbyshire. It is common on calcar- 

 eous soils in many parts of Europe,) 



Variety of Melampyrum sylvaticum L. — In Blairathole Woods I 

 found a variety of the local Melampyrum sylvaticum, which I do not find 

 mentioned. It may be thus described: — Melampyrum sylvaticum L., var. 

 pallidijlora. Flowers smaller, corolla-mouth less open ; corolla pale yellow 

 or whitish, touched with violet (somewhat resembling in colour the corolla 

 of M. pratense) ; bracts shorter and broader. With the common form but 

 much less common. — F. Buchanan White. 



Anthriscus abortivus Jord- — I have found in a wood, near Perth, 

 one or two plants of what appears to be Anthriscus abortivus Jord. This, 

 I believe, is considered a sub-species by Dr. Boswell Syme, who thinks it 

 likely to occur in upland districts. It differs from Anthriscus sylvestris by 

 its less divided and paler leaves, and by the absence of the circlet of minute 

 hairs at the base of the fruit. There seems no reason to suppose that it is 

 an escape in the place I found it, except it be its scarceness there. — F. 

 Buchanan White. 



New British Fungus. — Specimens of Exidia truncata Fr., found on 

 lime, have been sent me from Haddingtonshire by Mr Alexander D. Innes, 

 The Gardens, Yester. I am not aware that this species has been previously 

 observed in Britain. — James Keith, Forres, 7th December, 1874. 



