92 The Scottish Naturalist. 



" Differt a Webera nutante var. uiiginosa foliis latioribus mollibus 

 vix nitentibus, capsula crassiore microstoma, peristomio miuore, 

 interno minus perfecto." 



S00T0H PLANTS 



Carex rigida, Good. Var. inferalpina, Laestad., in South Aberdeen. I 

 found this plant in 1880, on the south side of Tolmount, Forfar, and also on the 

 Clova table-land, near Loch-na-gar in South Aberdeenshire ; but it remained 

 unnamed, save as a form of G. rigida growing in wet ground, till recently 

 Mr. Arther Bennett's notice of it recalled it to my attention. He has passed 

 the specimens as correct. 



On the west shore of Loch Callater, in South Aberdeenshire, occurred, in 

 1878, a very dwarf form"of Veronica Beccabunga, L., with bright blue 

 flowers. This appears to be identical with the Var. minor, Roth, see " Tent. 

 Germ." p.ii. 1788. 



In 1882, at the upper end of Glen Dole, I noticed a form of Vicia sepium, 

 L. with narrower leaves. It is, Sir J. Hooker says, " the usual form of rocky 

 banks," and is probably identical with the Var. angustifolia described in 

 Koch's "Synopsis." G. Claridge Druce. 



JUNCUS ALPINUS PROBABLY A SCOTCH PLANT. 



Recently, while revising the allied forms in my herbarium in the endeavour 



to come to some conclusion respecting J. nigritellus Don, I was struck with a 



single stem so labelled, and gathered in the Clova mountains in 1870. This 



specimen had escaped notice of late, and now seemed to me referable to one of 



the forms of J. alpinus Vill. Dr. Buchenau reports on it : " I am certainly 



very much disposed to consider it J. alpinus ; still, it might be one of the very 



rarely occurring intermediate forms between alpinus and lamprocarpus." Dr. 



Buchenau remarks that fuller material would enable him to decide at once, and 



it is to be hoped that some botanist will work this district and collect freely 



of any unusual-looking forms. According to Don (Eng. Bot. Supp. 2643), his 



nigritellus was referred by Laharpe to a form of J. alpinus ; concerning the 



latter I may say that there are forms with black, as well as others with pale 



chestnut, flowers and fruit. Dr. Boswell states (Eng. Bot. III. Vol. X, p. 32) 



that he only knows J. nigritellus from Don's description ; the plate, however, 



represents the plant as having a conspicuous rhizome, such as is, I believe, 



also characteristic of alpinus ; but which I have never met with in lampro 



carpus, although the sand-hill forms of the latter, which have been distributed 



in recent years as nigritellus by our Botanic Exchange Club, have a more or 



less branching and diffuse rootstock. The plant alluded to above was collected 



in Glen Dole by Mr. John C. Hutcheson, in August, 1870. 



W. H. Beeby. 



