JUNCU8 TENUIS, WILLDENOW, AS A SCOTTISH PLANT. 169 



Thomson, visited the spot and found that the plant 

 grows in more or less abundance for a distance of 

 several hundred yards along the roadside, at a place 

 where the soil is rather sandy. 



In comparing the various records to which I have 

 referred, one is immediately impressed by the 

 similarity of the situations in which the plant has 

 been discovered. Thin grassy places, and roadsides 

 at a low elevation, seem to be the spots which it 

 favours, and not marshy places among mountain 

 rivulets, as was formerly supposed. 



Is it not at least possible that Don may really 

 have picked up J, tenuis by some roadside, in the 

 course of one of his extended botanical wanderings, 

 and that the plant may have got mixed up with 

 gatherings from Clova? In this way, what has 

 hitherto been regarded as a misnomer or error of 

 judgment may after all have been due to a lapse of 

 memory or mistake as to locality. 



