26 The Scottish Naturalist. 



A NEW BKITISH OAEEX PROM CAITHNESS. 



We have just received from Mr. A. Bennett, information of the 

 discovery of Carex kalina, B. sattegaiensis, Fr. Mr. Bennett's 

 article will appear in full in the next number of this Magazine, 

 but the discovery is of such interest as to call for the earliest 

 possible publication. The species was found by Mr. Grant, of 

 Wick, on sand banks beside Wick river, and specimens were for- 

 warded by him to Mr. Bennett under the name " C. riparia (?) ,r 

 The type is known from northern Europe, the Faroe Islands, and 

 Iceland, the form kattegatcnsis has been found in Norway and 

 in the south of Sweden. 



BOTANICAL NOTE 



Allium carinatum, L., in Dumfries and Kirkcndbrightsliires. — Mr. F. R_ 

 Coles, Tongland, Kirkcudbright, has sent me specimens of this Allium from the 

 coast of Kirkcudbright opposite St. Mary's Isle, when he describes it as grow- 

 ing "at the edge of the shingle among Rubus, Ulex,and Sarotbamnus in broken 

 roughish ground, with no trace of any planted shrubs near ; there are cottages 

 near, but inquiries of the cottars as to the plant elicited remarks tending to 

 make one think they supposed it a slight evidence of insanity that they should 

 grow so trivial a plant. Other inquiries from Lord Selkirk's head gardener 

 failed to show the plant as known by him on St. Mary's Isle." 



Mr. Watson sent me specimens also "From a sandy roadside at Closeburn, 

 Dumfries, where it grew among whin." These localities seem to point to the 

 plant being well established, but it increases so rapidly from a single head bulbil 

 that much suspicion must always be thrown on the species as a possible native. 

 In my garden it increases with at least ten times the rapidity of A. oleraeeum. 



Calamagrostis lanceolata, Roth., in Kirkcudbrightshire. — Mr. J. 

 M 'Andrew of New Galloway has sent me a specimen of this species gathered 

 "at Kenmore, Holms, an extensive flat of alluvial land at the mouth of the 

 River Ken, and at the north end of Loch Ken, used only for hay. This flat is 

 flooded several times in the year. In this flat are several lagoons, generally 

 bordered by bushes, and Calamagrostis was growing at the damp side of one 

 of these lagoons among willow bushes. " This description of its place of growth 

 is just as it grows in Norfolk and Cambridgeshires, when I have seen it cut 

 with the reed grasses for coarse hay. It has been reported from Pennycuik,. 

 Edinburgh; but Dr. Syme suggests its being "planted," in English Botany,, 

 3rd ed. In "Topographical Botany," 2nd ed., it is admitted as a native as far 

 north as Cheviotland — Cumberland and Edinburgh being suggested as errors, 

 and confusion with C. Epigejos being suggested in some cases. 



ARTHUR BENNETT. 



On Scottish Carices. — On Cairn of Daimh in Glen Shee, East Perth, I 

 gathered a sedge which seemed intermediate between Carex panicea and C 

 vaginata. Mr. Arthur Bennett says that it comes very near to C. Pelia. 

 Carex rupestris L. I gathered in Glen Shiel, West Ross. 



Oxford, $th November, 18S4. G. C. DRUCE. 



