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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HLSTORY 



Carex atrata 

 C. pulla 

 C. rigida 

 C. salina 

 Poa alpina 

 P. glauca 

 P. nemoralis 

 Aira alpina 

 Agropyrum junceum 

 Polystichum Lonchitis 

 Phegopteris Dryopteris 

 Equisetum pratense 

 Lycopodium annotinum 

 Isoetes echinosporum 



I. 

 I. 



23 are not found in any of the four Scottish vice-counties. 

 17 „ „ three 



14 .. .. two 



1 1 



>> 



>> 



one 



'5 

 55 



JJ 

 JJ 



JJ 



Ranuncuhis auricomus, Z. — Watson observes on this ^ " there 

 seems no cHmatic cause to prevent its occurrence in the West 

 and North Highlands." In Arctic Norway it extends to 

 71° 8', and altitude 1440 feet; in Sweden to 68' N.; and from 

 Skane to Swedish Lapland its distribution is continuous ; in 

 Russian Lapland to 69°. Of the 23 above species, Sedian 

 villosiim^ Pyrola minor^ diwd Juficus obtusiflofus, seem the most 

 hkelv to occur in one or more of the four vice-counties named. 

 Of those absent from three — Hypericum qi{adrangi{lum^ Rhinan- 

 thus groenlajidicus^ Jiincus trigluinis^ and Foa 7iemoralis are 

 most likely to occur in some one or more of the three ; of those 

 absent from two Sagi?ia subulata^ Ge7'a?im7?i sylvaticuDi^ Alche- 

 milla filicmdis^ the two Callitriches^ Salix phylicifolia^ and Isoetes 

 echinosporum ; of those absent from one Subidaria aquatica^ Cam- 

 pajiula 7'oUaidifolia^ Euphrasia boreaiis, Luzula spicata, and 

 Phegoptej'is Dryopteris. 



Polygala vulgaris, var. Baliii, is given as in the Faroes ; but the 

 specimens sent me so named are certainly not the same as 

 the Irish plant. 



Alsine (Arenaria) hirta, Hart77i. — Mr. Beeby - says Dr. Lange 

 considered the Ben Lawyers ' rubella ' " a compact form of 

 A. ver7ta, var. hirta^ Hooker^ gives it as A. hirta, Wormsk., 

 with the syn. of ^ A. rubella^ Hook.' Wormskiold published it 

 in "Flora Danica," F. 38, t. 1646, 1819, edited by J. W. 



1 "Cyb. Brit." i. {1847), p. ?>7. 2 «' Scot. Naturalist," (1888), p. 209. 



3 "Stud. Fl." ed. 3 (1884), p. 63. 



