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RECORDS OF SCOTTISH PLANTS FOR 1892, 

 ADDITIONAL TO "TOPOGRAPHICAL 

 BOTANY," Ed. 2, 1883. 



By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 



When these records were first undertaken in 1886, it was 

 thought that when those for 1883 to 1886 were taken up 

 and embodied (1849 records), the others that would have to 

 be placed on record might occasionally tell up to 200 or a 

 little more ; but, contrary to this, the numbers have been 323, 

 638, 583, 225, 371, 306, and in this present one, about 180. 

 At first it was intended that notes should accompany such 

 species as seemed of interest ; but the space occupied has 

 quite forbidden such a wish being carried out, notwith- 

 standing a very patient editor. Perhaps hereafter this may 

 be done. 



Personally, I should like to see these records carried on 

 until we get a new edition of " Top. Botany." The number 

 of counties to be filled up with Watson's " British types " is 

 now very much reduced, and in the next year or so it may 

 be allowable to make some observations on the census of 

 these, and of some other of the more diffused types. 



We do not progress much in the records of ascertained 

 higher or lower limits of species in Scotland. This is a 

 subject that should always be kept in mind, if we are to 

 keep ahead of some of our Continental neighbours. The 

 French botanists have been doing good work in this among 

 the Jura Mountains lately ; and the Irish botanists arc also 

 doing good work. 



I have to record one plant on this occasion new to Scot- 

 land, viz. Orobanche cruenta y Bert. (O. gracilis ^ Sm.) For 

 some years I have had a specimen of an Orobanche > named 

 O. elatior, gathered in 1 S46, near Oban in Argyllshire; it 

 has been a puzzle to me, until, last autumn, my friend Mr. 

 Miller sent me some very Interesting specimens of the genus 

 from the Channel Isles, but too far gone to be able to dissect 

 them. This made me resolve to try and clear up the 

 Argyll specimen, which was certainly not elatior. I carefully 



