130 The Scottish Naturalist. 



from the Orkney plant, which has broader leaves and is very hirsute. Mr 

 W. H. Beeby tells me that Dr. Lange has said on his plant : ' Probably var. 

 hirsuta Syme, but I have seen no authentic specimens.' Mr. Charles Bailey,, 

 whose opinion I invited, writes: 'The Rev. W. R. Linton's P. minor is 

 clearly the same as Dr. Boswell's hirsuta of E. B. Mr. Beeby's plant does 

 not strike me as the same. My first impression was that it was P. mono- 

 sperma Pourr., but it does not agree in the fruit. I have looked through all my 

 Planlagos^ and cannot match it. It does not agree with P. alpinx L., nor P. 

 montana, nor P. subulata L., nor P. lance lata, var. dubia Ram., though it has 

 somewhat the aspect of the latter.' " 



Scirpus uniglumis Link. Salt marsh, near Ollaberry, Northmaven, 

 23rd July, 1886; W. H. Beeby. By the Wick River, Caithness, 7th July, 

 1886 ; F. J. Hanbury. 



Carex curta Good., var. alpicola Wahl., Ben Lawers, 19th August,. 

 1886; H. & J. Groves. Caenlochan, Forfar, July, 1885; H. E. Fox. "The 

 plant so named in Britain ; whether we have true vitilis Fr., I much doubt r 

 and Dr. Boswell expressed the same opinion in one of our Reports some years 

 ago. The two plants are certain'y not like my vitilis Fr., from Sweden and 

 Lapland." Arthur Bennett. Deyeuxia strigosa Kunth, Loch Duran, 

 Caithness, 6th July, 1886. F.J. Hanbury. Equisetum sylvaticum L.,. 

 var. capillare Hoffm. " Woods near Dunphail, Morayshire, 14th July, 1886. 

 New to Great Britain." F. J. Hanbury. "Judging from the one specimen 

 sent, I see that the variety stands in the same sort of relation to the type as 

 E. fluviatile to E. limosum L. The term capillare well describes the hair- 

 like branches, which are all much attenuated, extending 3 in. and 4 in. from 

 the whip-like stem. The internodes of the branches, too, are lengthened out, 

 and average about a quarter of an inch. The specimen is a barren stem. The 

 branchlets are generally ascending slightly, and comparatively few are recurved. 

 Nyman (Consp. Flor. Europ.) does not separate it as a variety." E. F. Linton. 

 Chara fragilis Desv. var delicatula A. Br., "Loch of Harray, Orkney 

 Isles, 7th August, i885." W. R. Linton. 



The following records are additions to county-lists in Top. Bot., Ed. II., and 

 in the Reports of the club : Arctium nemo > osum Lej., in Caithness (W. R. 

 Linton); Hieracium tenellum Backh., and H. globosum Backh.,both in Easter - 

 ness (James Groves); Potamogeton nitens Weber, and Carex capiXlaris L. ,both 

 in Caithness (F. J. Hanbury); O. rariflo>u Sm., E. Perth (Ewing and Ben- 

 nett) ; C. Oederi Ehrh., W. Sutherland (Marshall and Bennett). 



