268 The Scottish Naturalist. 



terete, hyaline, supported on basidia twice or thrice as 

 as long as themselves. (The type has perithecia \-\ by 

 tV mm.). 



On dead culm of a grass. December. 

 East. — ' — — Dee — — — — 

 West. — — — — 

 Near Aberdeen— J. W. H. Trail. 

 Europe. 



This agrees so well with L. donacinum, as described 

 • by Saccardo, except in size of perithecia, that I cannot 

 venture to regard it as more than a variety of Saccardo's 

 species. 



FOEMS OF OAEEX NEW TO SCOTLAND. 



Oarex rigida Good. var. inferalpina, Lcest, 



Among a fine series of Carices gathered in Forfar and Aberdeenshire last 

 July by Mr. F. J. Hanbury, I found specimens of the above variety from " the 

 little Culrannock, Forfarshire." It occurs in Lapland, scattered over the upper 

 Alpine region. 



Carex aquatilis, Wahlb. pars, cuspidata, Lcest., epigejos Lcvst., 

 and virescens And. 



The var. cuspidata occurs in Caithness, on the banks of the Wick river, along 

 with C. salina and C. aquatilis var. Watsoni. To the former of these it bears 

 much resemblance. It was gathered in Tornea Lappmark by Lsestadius (Bidrag 

 till kannedomen om vtixt i Tomeo Lappmark, i860), and by Lundeberg in 

 Western Bothnia, whence I have seen specimens in Dr. Almquist's herbarium. 

 It may be satisfactory to state that Dr. Almquist concurs in the determination 

 of the specimens. 



Dr. White has sent me specimens from Perthshire of the varieties epigejos 

 Laest. and virescens And. 



Carex helvola Blytt. A plant gathered by the late Prof. Balfour, on 

 Lochnagar, on nth Aug., 1846, and regarded as C. curta var. dlpicola, proves 

 to be C. helvola. Dr. A. Blytt has confirmed this identification. 



ARTHUR BENNETT. 



Possible New Scotch Betula. — Scotch botanists should look out 

 for a Betula " forming low bushes about a foot high, at 1500 feet above the 

 sea, on Ben Vachart, near Struy, Inverness-shire" (J. Ball, 1839 !), and found 

 also, perhaps, by myself on Ben Aven, Braemar, in 1842. In both cases bad 

 barren specimens were found. It may be B. humilis Schrk. I would especially 



direct attention to Mr. Ball's plant. 



C. C. BABINGTON. 



