68 The Scottish Naturalist. 



C. anguillata, Drej. ; 0. capillipes, Drej. ; C. 

 pedata, L. 



Calamagrostis stricta, v. borealis, Lsest. 



Agrostis rubra, Wahlenb ; A. alba, L., v. maritima, Mey. 

 British ! though not in our Floras. I have, from Kent, Anglesea 

 and Norfolk, specimens which agree well with Friesian speci- 

 mens sent by Dr. Buchenau. 



Trisetum subspicatum, Beauv. 



Aira caespitosa, L., v. pallida, Rich. 



Poa csesia, Smith. 



Lycopodium annotirmm, L., v. alpestre, Hartm. 



Equisetum arvense, L., v. riparia. 



Blechnum Spicant, Roth., v. fallax, Lange. 



At one time the Habenaria viridis of Iceland was thought 



to be a different species, and was named Peristylus islandicus 



by Lindley. 



CAREX SALItfA WHLNB., VAE. XATTEGATEffSIS FRIES 



DT SCOTLAND. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



[Note. — By a printer's error on p. 26 of Scot. Nat. for January, 1885, the 

 name is given as Carex ka/ina, Fr., var. sattegatensis . — Ed,, Scot. Nat.] 



IN August, 1883, Mr. Grant of Wick, Caithness, sent me a 

 Carex named " G. riparia?" This being at a time of the 

 year when one is botanically busy, I only glanced at it, and wrote 

 " 0. paludosa v. Kochiana" from the aristate glumes. Having 

 occasion last December to carefully examine all my specimens of 

 Carex, this one, when dissected, I saw at once had nothing to do 

 with paludosa ; and it seemed, after comparison with continental 

 specimens, to be some form of salina (a species that, I may say, 

 contains several sub-species and varieties, all difficult of determina- 

 tion). When at Kew I compared it with the herbarium specimens ; 

 but as neither Professor Oliver nor Mr. Baker seemed quite to 

 think with me, I felt afraid of a mistake, and sent the specimen to 

 Dr. Almquist (the author of the distigmaticon section of Carex in 

 Hartmann's Scandinavian Flora, 2d edition). This answer was — 



