310 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



SHORT NOTES. 



Habbnaria MONTANA Dur. & Schinz = H. chloroleuca Eidley 

 IN Caithness. — Mr. G. Lillie has sent me a fine specimen of this 

 orchis gathered from a hank near Loch Watenton on the east 

 coast. The specimen is remarkahle in that it has only one tuber, 

 and that globular — it may be the two ordinary ones have coalesced '? 

 Mr. Eolfe, to whom I sent flowers and half the tuber, remarks : — 

 " The globular bulb is, so far as I can see, quite unusual in 

 Habenaria cJilorantlia, so that I shall keep it with the flowers. I 

 do not yet see the signification of the variation, but will look at it 

 again." Many years ago Dr. Ward told me he had gathered the 

 plant in Strath Halladale, near the bridge, not far from the Reay 

 Burn. But there must be some confusion of boundary here, as 

 the source of the Reay Burn is quite two miles inside the Caithness 

 border. So it may be he actually gathered it in Caithness. In 

 Scotland it is recorded for East and West Sutherland and the 

 Outer Hebrides. In__Norway it extends up to 63° 15' N. lat. 

 (Blytt) ; in Sweden to Ostersunds lau. In South Finland it occurs 

 only in the provinces of Abo and Alaud ; while H. hifolia reaches 

 67° N. lat. (Hjelt) in Norway to 70° 20' (Norman), and in Sweden 

 up to Swedish Lapland (Berlin). — Arthur Bennett. 



Linaria arenaria DC. in N. Devon (p. 276). — I am unable 

 to account for the presence of this plant at Santon, Braunton, 

 three specimens of which have been brought to me from that 

 place by different persons during this autumn. I can state, 

 however, that the sower of the seeds of the plants on Northam 

 Barrows has not sown any elsewhere. I do not feel the difficulty 

 experienced by Mr. Hanbury in believing that the wind may have 

 been the agent by which seeds were conveyed to the habitat at 

 Santon from that at Northam, distant a little over five miles 

 S.S.W. No one who has had experience of the furious gales 

 occasionally visiting these burrows could, I think, doubt that 

 heavier objects than seeds could be transported by them between 

 the two localities. I do not, however, feel much confidence in 

 thus accounting for the existence of the plants at Santon, but 

 think it more probable that the seeds here also may have been 

 sown by human hands. Of one thing I feel sure — that the plant 

 is of recent introduction. I have during the last forty years been 

 a constant visitor to the part of Santon where the plants are 

 found, and I could not have passed them over if they had been 

 there before the present year. — Thos. Wainwright. 



Carum verticillatum Koch in Dorset. — This umbcllifor 

 grows plentifully in a rough marshy meadow on the border of 

 Slape Heath, between Stoborough and Arne, where it was 

 pointed out to me in July last by the discoverer, Mr. T. H. 

 Green, of Weston, Bath. The whole extent of the plant's area 

 is rather more than an acre. It may be thought remarkable that 

 this species should have hitherto escaped observation in a district 

 so thoroughly worked and so frequently visited by botanists from 

 all parts of the country ; and in that sense it was a very unlikely 



