70 HIGHLAND PLANTS COLLECTED IN 1896. 



AtiipJex palula L. aud A. hastata L. Shore of Locli Liuiibe, 

 near Fort William ; Suada maritbna L. and Salicornia herbacea L. 

 also occur here. 



Polygonum lapathifolium L. A weed in the gardens of Koy 

 Bridge Hotel. 



liumcx. Acetosa L. ascends to 3400 ft. in Glen Spean. 



Salix Mijrsinitrs L. The form (S'. proctimbens Forbes was met 

 with on Garbh Bheiim, Htob Coire-an-Easain More, and Aonach 

 Beg, in small quantity. — *S'. purpurea L. By the Spean near 

 Inverlair ; locally plentiful, and looking thoroughly wild. A single 

 tsmall bush of S. aurita x purpurea was found here ; it is a very 

 good leaf-intermediate. — .S'. eilha xfror/Uis. In Glen Spean, about 

 a mile and a half below Roy Bridge ; a shrubby bush, apparently 

 not an intentional introduction, but very unlikely to be a native 

 here. — S. aurita x Caprea and 8. aurita x cinerea were gathered by 

 the river between Tyndrum and Crianlarich, 88. 



Malaxis paludosa Swartz. Boggy ground. Glen Roy. In this 

 glen we also noticed Habenaria conopsea Benth., H. albida R. Br., 

 and H. chloroleuca Ridley. 



Sparijanium / ajjine Schnizl. Flowering, in a tarn about an acre 

 in extent, on the divide between the Lairige-au-Leacan (Glen 

 Spean) and the head of Glen Nevis, near the source of the Allt 

 Coire-an-Radh, at fully 2800 ft. by aneroid. This is 600 ft. higher 

 than any British record that we know of; but Rev. E. F. Linton 

 informs us that he has gathered it at about the same level near the 

 head of Canlochan Glen. The appearance of the plant was so 

 peculiar that we thought it not unlikely to be one of the other 

 Scandinavian species, but this may be due to the icy-cold water in 

 which it grows. "Too young; either Sp. ^///fwe (sensu Neuman) 

 or Sp. speirocephalum Neum. " (Pastor L. M. Neuman, ex 0. Nord- 

 stedt in litt.). 



Scirpus setaceus L. Glen Roy ; uncommon in the Highlands, 

 according to our experience. 



Eriophorum latifoliuin Hoppe. Moors on the south side of Glen 

 Spean, not far from Lionachan. 



Carex paucijiora Lightf. Frequent in similar situations to that 

 of Kriophorum. latifuUum. — C. curta Good., var. alpicola (Wahlenb.). 

 At 2700 ft. in a swamp on the east side of Ben-na-Van ('? name) ; 

 not seen elsewhere. — C. var/inata Tausch. Garbh Bheinu, at 

 2700 ft. C. pulla Good, is frequent in Glen Spean. 



A<jroslis scabra Willd. {teste Hackel). Alien. Apparently quite 

 established on the West Highland Railway banks between Tulloch 

 and Fersit siding, and between Corrour and Loch Treig ; a very 

 elegant grass. We were disposed to think American timber the 

 most probable source of its introduction ; a conjecture which is 

 favoured by what Mr. Miller Christy ('Notes on the Botany of 

 Manitoba') says of the plant (he adopts A. laxijiora Richards, as its 

 name) in Journ. Bat. 1887, p. 298: — "It often grows in large 

 patches, and generally it is the first species to spring up in old dis- 

 used cart-trails. During August the heads break off at one of the 

 joints of the stalk, aud are driven about the prairie by the wind, 



