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depressum^ &c., &c., as well as important varieties of commoner 

 species. 



Other varieties new to Britain are Cynodontiiim 7>irens, vars. 

 Wahlenbej'gii and coinpaduvi. The former was gathered by my- 

 self in Glencallater in 187 1, and the latter by Mr Roy and myself 

 in Braemar, in July 1873, at an altitude of about 2200 feet, 

 where it was associated with Ranunctdus ficaria, Ditrichwn flexi- 

 caide, var. co7npactu?fi^ Dicramun eiongatinfi, and a number of most 

 interesting boreal plants. 



Two new localities have been detected for Grimmia coiiwuitata 

 and G. contorta. The former has been found in Kircudbright- 

 shire by Mr M'Andrew, and the latter in Wales by Mr Holmes 

 of London. This summer little can be done, I fear, on the 

 Scottish mountains. At the present time the higher ranges are 

 covered by deep snow down nearly to 2000 feet above the sea- 

 level. On the last day of May the road leading across the 

 Cairnwell, from Glenshee to Braemar, was cleared of the snow 

 which covered it to a depth of from three to seven feet. This is 

 not very encouraging to botanical workers on the mountains, but 

 the lower are fully as much in need of exploration as the higher 

 lands. 



Fern, by Brechin. 



Notes on the Botany of Loch Lindores, Fifeshire.— On the 23d of last 

 August, Colonel Drummond Hay and I spent three hours in an examination 

 of the shores of the Loch of Lindores. At the west end of the loch is a rather 

 extensive marsh, usually too wet to be easily examined. Here Typha angtisti- 

 folia abounds, but, as is often the case elsewhere, seldom flowers. In the dry 

 and hot summer of 1868 Colonel Drummond Hay found it flowering freely, 

 and it was in hope that this would be again the case this season that we were 

 led to visit the loch. Our expectations were realised, though the great majo- 

 rity of the plants were flowerless. To get at the flowering ones it was neces- 

 sary to wade nearly knee-deep through a very mal-odorous mixture of water 

 and mud. In the dryer parts of the marsh, Lythrum salicarin, a rare plant 

 in the east of Scotland, abounds ; and in some parts another rather scarce 

 plant. Ranunculus lingua, is not uncommon. Among the immense beds of 

 Menyanthes we found a few plants of Carex filiformis. Leaving the marsh, 

 we turned our attention to the loch, where great masses of one of the batra- 

 chian Ranunculi were conspicuous. This turned out to be the local Ranun- 

 culus circinatus, which seems to be almost the only representative of its group 

 in the loch. Here, also, was Alyriophyllum spicainni, a rare plant north of the 

 Forth in our experience. A still more local plant, Calliffiche aufumnalis, 

 occurred more sparingly. (To keep it company we placed in the loch some 

 living plants of Xaias flexilis from Loch Cluny, where the two grow together, 



