The Scottish Naturalist. 69 



"The Carex you sent in your last letter is Carex salina B. Jcatte- 

 gatensis, Fr. 



I subjoin a description of the species : — 



Stems (in Caithness specimens), 18 inches high, with broad 

 membranous sheaths to the lower part of the leaves, leaves \ in. 

 broad, with the central nerve whitish and very prominent. 

 Female spikes, 2 or 3, 2 inches long ; the lower glumes, with long 

 aristate tips usually 3-nerved (but exceedingly variable), much 

 longer than the fruit ; male spikes 2 to 4, the lowest usually with 

 female flowers at the base, glumes narrow, half truncate at the 

 apex or obtusely rounded; perigynia short, 1 J lines long, nearly 

 without nerves but variable (not mature and nut shrivelled). 



Habit of slender forms of paludosa ; characters near form of 

 aquatilis, but the young spikes are richly coloured with purplish 

 brown, with the central part of the glumes pale yellowish-brown. 

 Distribution of the species : — 



Iceland ! — Faroe Isles — Spitzbergen — N. Zembla. 



Arctic Russia — Lapland ! — Norway ! — Sweden ! 



Greenland ! — British North America — United States ! 

 Distribution of var. kattegatensis : — 



Norway ! Provinces of Bohuslan ! and Halland in Sweden. 



Placed by Nyman (Conspectus Florae Europcece) as a sub-species 

 under C. hosmatolepis of Drejer. 



LIST OF EEOENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLOEA OE 

 DUMFEIES-SHIEE AND GALLOWAY. 



Compiled by F. R. COLES. 



In the following list the numerals refer to the numbers in the 

 London catalogue of British flowering plants. The following 

 abbreviations are employed : — Dumf. for Dumfriess-shire, Kirk. 

 for Kirkcudbrightshire, F.R,C. for the writer, J. F. for Rev. J. 

 Fraser, F. W. G. for F. W. Grierson, M'A. for J. M'Andrew, 

 R. W. for Robert Watson, and J. W. for J. Wilson. 



14 Ranunculus peltatus Fr. var. truncatus Kirk. (F. R. C.) ; 

 var. noribundus Kirk. (F. R. C), and Dumf. (J. W.) j var, 

 fissifollUS, Kirk. (F. R. C.) 



