ALIEN PLANTS 103 



LABIATE. 



Ballota ruderalis, Swartz. Leith, a. 

 Salvia officinalis, L. Leith, a. 



LILIACE^>. 



Allium carinatum, Z. Linlithgowshire, €. 



A. neapolitanurn, Cyr. Warriston (escape), a. 



Tulipa sylvestris, L. Linlithgowshire, y. 



JUNCACE^. 



Juncus tenuis, Willd. New Galloway, 6. 



GRAMINE^. 



Agrostis nigra. With. Plentiful in a derelict garden, along with 

 Apera Sptca-Venti, Beauv., at Carnoustie, Forfar. 



Apera intermedia, Hackel. Several plants of this species were 

 found in 1904-5-6, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where 

 it was evidently introduced with foreign grain. This plant 

 was only recently (1902) discovered on the Erdschias-Dagh 

 (Mons Argaeus), Asia Minor, by Drs. Penther and Zederbauer, 

 from whose paper on the Flora of that district in the " Annalen 

 des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums " (Band xx. Nr. 4, 

 Vienna, 1905) the following description of the plant by Professor 

 Hackel is taken : — 



"Annua. Culmi graciles, 10-25 ^^i. alti, erecti v. ascen- 

 dentes, teretes, glaberrimi, simplices, 3-4 nodis. Folia glabra 

 vaginae laxiusculae, laeves v. scaberulae, internodiis breviores 

 ligula oblonga, 2-5 mm. Ig., obtusa vel acutiuscula, saepe fissa 

 laminae anguste lineares, obtusiusculje, breves (2-4 cm. Ig.), 1-2 

 mm. It., utrinque marginibusque plus minusve scabrae, nervis 

 prominuhs percursae. Panicula linearis, densa, lobata sed non 

 interrupta, 3-8 cm. Ig., contracta, rhachi laevi, ramis subverti- 

 cillatis brevibus (primario panicula ca. 4-5-plo breviore), ab 

 ima basi spiculiferis, spiculis ^qualiter dispositis imbricatis, 

 quam pedicelli subterminales pluries longioribus. Spiculae 

 lanceolatae, 2*5 mm. longae, viridul^e v. raro livid^e, glabrae, 

 rhachilla in stipitem brevissimum (0.3 mm. longum) glabrum 

 producta. Glumae steriles parum inaequales, lanceolatce, subito 

 tenuiterque acuminatae : I. 2 mm. Ig., i-nervis, IL 2.5 mm. 

 Ig., 3-nervis, setaceo-apiculata, utraque obtuse carinata, laevis, 

 herbaceo-membranacea ; gluma fertilis lanceolata, 2 mm. Ig., 

 herbaceo-membranacea, integra, paullo infra apicem aristam 

 exserens rectam scabram quam gluma 3-plo longiorem, dorso 



