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west of New Galloway, near a house, along with 

 Juncus squarrosus, J. lamprocarpus, grasses, etc. 

 . . . and one cannot see how it could have come 

 there." Dr. F. Buchanan White, F.L.S., when asked 

 for his opinion by Mr. Bennett, replied : " It is not 

 a species (looking at the distribution in Nyman) that 

 I should have expected there." Mr. Bennett remarks, 

 however, that it is a very sporadic plant, and of this 

 we have additional evidence in its discovery in the 

 West of Ireland in August last. 



In the Journal of Botany, vol. xxvii. (1889), p. 335, 

 Mr. Reginald W. Scully, F.L.S,, announces the dis- 

 covery of this plant in several places in County 

 Kerry. He first noticed it growing abundantly on 

 an old grass-grown road which runs from Sneem 

 to Caherdaniel, and afterwards found it again on a 

 small grassy flat, within a few yards of the sea, as 

 well as at the head of a small bay, on the shore- 

 line between Blackwater Bridge and Kenmare. He 

 remarks that it seems a lover of roadsides, and that 

 its distribution is apparently very erratic. 



I have already stated that a specimen of this 

 plant from Renfrewshire was sent, in 1863, to the 

 Greenock Museum, under the name of J. acutiflorus, 

 by Mr. John Thomson, Dennistoun. One day last 

 August, while Mr. Thomson, and Messrs. Thomas 

 King and William Stewart, Glasgow, were passing 

 along the road between Bridge of Weir and Kil- 

 malcolm, Mr. King noticed on the roadside a Juncus 

 which appeared unfamiliar to him. Specimens were 

 collected by him and afterwards shown to a number 

 of local botanists who were unable to determine the 

 plant, and all expressed the opinion that it could 

 not be referred to any species of Juncus re- 

 corded for the Clydesdale district. On comparing 

 the plant with specimens of J. tenuis collected in 

 Kirkcudbrightshire by Mr. M'Andrew, I became 

 convinced that both were of the same species, and 

 this opinion has been confirmed by Mr. Bennett. A 

 few days ago Mr. King and I, accompanied by Mr. 



