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I could not determine. I sent it to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, who pronounced it to be 

 Juncus tenuis, one of the late Mr. George Don's 

 reputed discoveries. Having been found a few years 

 ago in Herefordshire, it was re-admitted into the 

 British Flora in the latest edition of Hooker's 

 Student's Flora. The plant was growing in fair 

 quantity at the roadside among grass and Juncus 

 squarrosus, etc., about sixty yards from West Risk 

 House. On the continent it grows in similar situa- 

 tions. The road is not much used, and the plants 

 grew on the xvater-table, which had not been cleaned 

 by the roadman for the past ten years. I cannot 

 make up my mind as to its indigeneity, nor can I 

 conjecture how the plant could have come there. 



Among some plants sent to Mr. Bennett about the 

 same time was Rhynchospora fusca, which the Rev. 

 George M'Conachie, of Rerwick, and myself gathered 

 in Auchencairn Moss, close to the Sol way Firth, in 

 1882. This is the farthest north station in the 

 British Islands for this plant, and its first record 

 for Scotland. It has been reported from Yorkshire, 

 but not confirmed. It is even rare in some of the 

 counties round the Bristol Channel, where it is 

 generally found. 



