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1 08. Sutherland, W. 



Cochlearia grcenlandica, L., E. S. Marshall in " Ann. Scot. Nat. 



Hist." 1892, p. 187. 

 (In our old manuals C. grc&nlandica usually meant the C. alpina of 



the present day.) 



109. Caithness. 

 Hieracium reticulatum, Lindeb., Hanbury, sp. 



1 1 o. Outer Hebrides. 



[189 1 Report. Delete the following as on record, viz. : Arabis, 

 Orobus, Lysimachia, Polygonum, Listera cor data, Habenaria (2), 

 Potamogeton pusillus, Car ex pauciflora, and Pihdaria?\ 



(Recorded by IV. S. Duncan, sp.) 



Raphanus maritimus. Juniperus communis. 



Alchemilla arvensis. Ruppia rostellata. 



Centunculus minimus. Carex distans, f. 



THE OCCURRENCE OF PYLAIELLA VARIA, 



KjELLMAN, IN SCOTLAND. 



By E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. 



Plate III. 



Under this name Kjcllman described in 1883, in his " Algae 

 of the Arctic Sea" (p. 282), a plant which, although very 

 variable in its characters, he considered to be distinct from 

 P. !'/(> rails, Kjcllm. His description of the plant is as 

 follows : 



•• P. (hallo racemoso-ramoso, minis sub angulo fere recto egredien- 

 tibus duplicis generis, longioribus et brevissimis; his e singulis bis 

 denis cellulis constructis, omnibus, vel saltern nonnullis, vulgo 

 di\isione vario modo peracta in zoosporangia vario modo disposita 

 mutatis. Tab. 27, Figs. 1 1 2. 



"The alga forms loosely complicated mats of a dark olive-brown, 

 lying free on the bottom or hanging on larger aL 1 have not 

 found attached specimens. The frond is repeatedly racemosely 



