PHYTOLOGY. 



tfEW SCOTTISH PLOWERDTG PLANTS. 



By Ar. BENNETT, F.L.S. 

 Calamagrostis strigosa, Hartm, in Caithness. 



IN Dr. Smiles " Life of Robert Dick of Thurso " will be found 

 a record of his finding, at Loch Duran, in Caithness, a grass 

 that Dick called "The Lapland Reed" {Calamagrostis lapponita 

 of Hooker, not of Wahlenberg). 



In 1883 I called Mr. J. Grant's (of Wick) attention to this note, 

 and he wrote "The loch is now (1883) drained, so I fear the 

 plant may be lost." It was not, however, until July of this year 

 that Mr. Grant was enabled to carefully search the ground 

 formerly covered by the loch and its borders. He was fortunate 

 enough to refind the plant, and, on his sending me fresh 

 specimens, I found that on examination they could not be referred 

 to Hooker's plant, which is C. stricta Nutt. var. Hooker i Syme of 

 the 3 ed. of " English Botany " ; but must belong to either the 

 C. strigosa, Hartm. or C. borealis, Lsestadius, but as I had not 

 specimens of either, I asked Mr. N. E. Brown of the Kew 

 Herbarium to compare them, and his answer was " The plant is 

 C. strigosa Hartm., for although the ligule is not quite so acute as 

 in the typical plant, yet I do not see what else it can be." The 

 plant was first described by Wahlenberg in his "Flora Lapponica" 

 1812-26, page 29, tab. 2," under the name of Arnndo strigosa. 



I give a few particulars of its distribution, etc. 



Calamagrostis strigosa, Hartm. in 4th ed. of " Scandinavian 

 Flora, 1843, an d (according to Nyman, 1st ed., p. 46), nth ed. 

 (1879) page 517. 



Andersson, Graminece Scandinavia, p. 97, fig. 99. Blytt, 

 Norsk Flor. p. 136. Norges Flora p. 86. Fries Summa Veg. 

 Scandinav., p. 241. Fries Herbarium Normale, fasc. 8, No. 86. 



