JUNCUS TENUIS, WILLDENOW, A3 A SCOTTISH PLANT. IQJ 



nondescript, but we received from Mi\ Dickson, some 

 years before the above date, a specimen, not so far 

 advanced towards maturity, of what seems to us the 

 same species." — Eng. FL, 31, 2174. 



"By a rivulet in marshy ground among the mts. 

 of Clova, near their summits. Mr. G. Don and Mr. 

 D. Don (Hb.F.)."— Gardiner's Flora Forfar, 183. 



" Such a record as Don's is worthless in science 

 until confirmed by some more accurate botanist of 

 the present time." — Cyh. Brit. 

 " A mistake."— jBo^. Man., 364. 



" In Don's collection of grasses, etc., is a specimen 

 of this labelled ' Clova.' I consider it is tenuis, and 

 see no reason why it should not again be found in 

 some of the lower glens of the Clova districts. Miss 

 Palmer has also a specimen of it. 



"Nyman gives Gall. occ. Belg. Batav. Germ, (plur. 

 sed sporad.), Bohem." — Druce, I.e., p. 264. 



These are the remarks that were passed because 

 Don said he had discovered this plant. 



In August, 1863, Mr. John Thomson, Farmer, 

 Dennistoun, Kilmalcolm, sent a specimen to the 

 Greenock Museum, under the name of Juncus 

 acutiflorus, and this I will endeavour to certify 

 shortly. 



The next time the plant makes its appearance is 

 in 1883, when Mr. R. F. Towndrow discovered it in 

 Herefordshire, in a rough, rather rushy pasture in 

 the Parish of Cradley. 



In August, 1886, one of our Corresponding Mem- 

 bers, Mr. James M' Andrew, New Galloway, sent a 

 specimen from Kirkcudbrightshire to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon. In Mr. Bennett's remarks 

 in the Scottish Naturalist upon this discovery, his 

 great carefulness seems to have prevented him from 

 giving the weight of his opinion as to the plant 

 being a British species; but Mr. M' Andrew, in 

 writing to the Journal of Botany, seems to have 

 had no doubt as to its nativity. He says : " It grows 

 on the roadside about three-quarters of a mile 



