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mile distant from the pond, but, as I afterwards found, connected 

 with it by a very small stream. Mr. James Groves kindly examined 

 for me both dried and fresh specimens (see Bot. Ex. Club. Eep. 

 1887), and considers the plant an inland form of E. Baudotii. — 



ElCHAED F. ToWNDROW. 



Eadula voluta in Scotland. — In July, 1888, I gathered Badula 

 voluta Taylor, in the Ness Glen, Dalmellington, Ayrshire. This is, 

 as far as I am aware, the first record of this hepatic for Scotland. 

 Along with it was Plagioclnla tridenticidata Tayl. — Jas. Mc Andrew. 



Flora of Beinn Laoigh. — Mr. Druce's description of this moun- 

 tain (Journ. Bot. 1888, p. 9) is only too graphic. I gave, in No. 223 

 of ' Science Gossip,' a list of the plants I saw in the district, the 

 result of which is that all the rarer plants have been nearly exter- 

 minated, and even Mr. Druce has had a difficulty in seeing some of 

 the species that used to grow in profusion. Cystopteris montana, for 

 instance, he does not appear to have seen on the Perthshire side, 

 yet it used to be a very common plant. Of Arahis j^etraa Lamk., 

 both the nearly-entire and the much-cut-leaved forms occur on the 

 mountain, and the same remark applies to the Cam Creay range of 

 hills near Killin ; the former in moist and shady situations, the 

 latter on dry and exposed XDlaces. Drosera obovata W. & K. used to 

 grow plentifully near to the stream about one mile below Coninish 

 Farm, and here and there on the moorland from the Farm-house 

 up towards Beinn Chuirn. I never saw either D. obovata or D. 

 intermedia growing far from D. anglica and D. rotundifolia. Dryas 

 octopetala L. used to be most abundant on the most eastern rocks of 

 Stob Garbh, and it was among these rocks that Pyrola rotundifolia 

 and P. secunda used to flower best. Mr. A. Bennett would not 

 admit Armeria planifolia Syme. I have sent him a much broader- 

 leaved form fi'om Ben Lawers, but I have not had his opinion yet. 

 I am certain we have not got this form on our Scotch mountains. 

 Carex vaginata Tausch. is not rare on the mountain, and the form 

 horealis as figured by Andersson is also to be found here and there, 

 the further up the more typical, but nowhere so characteristic as 

 that seen in Aberdeenshire and Forfarshire. I am surprised that 

 a botanist in Mr. Druce's position did not know of my work, and 

 that of many others after me in this district. I should have been 

 only too glad to have given him any information in my power, and 

 would have liked his opinion on many plants growing in the 

 district. — P. Ewing. 



Flora of the Isle of Wight. — I have arranged to publish a 

 Flora of the Isle of Wight, and I shall be very glad to receive any 

 notes with regard to the matter. I have adopted the drainage 

 divisions given by Mr. Townsend in his 'Flora of Hampshire,' and 

 records of plants found in the district will be acceptable. — Frederic 

 Stratton. 



