24 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



N. A. Philips for Cork in 1894 ; by Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S., 

 for Stirling in 1894; by Mr. N. Hiern for Devon in 1895; by 

 Mr. M'Andrew again for another station near Creetown, in 

 Wigtonshire, in 1895 ; and by Mr. Grant for Westerness in 1896. 

 In Mr. Ewing's note on the Renfrewshire specimen he re- 

 marks that, in comparing the various records previous to that 

 date, " one is immediately impressed with the similarity of the 

 stations in which the plant has been discovered." Subsequent 

 records, while differing in some points, in every case tend to 

 deepen this general impression. For instance, Mr. Graham's 

 Cornish specimen was found " on a strip of waste ground by 

 the high road." Mr. Robert Kidston refers to the plant as 

 being found by the roadsides. Mr. R. A. Philips also says, 

 '■ growing principally on damp roadsides and bare spots by the 

 sides of streams." He also adds, " not in turf." Mr. W. P. 

 Hiern found it on " a narrow flat strip of turf along a roadside." 

 Mr. M'Andrew's specimen was likewise found on the roadside, 

 associated with Juncus squarrosus, J. lamprocarpus, grasses, 

 &c." Mr. Laurence Watt says — " It is found growing along the 

 River Leven, both in and out of the water." It seems to flourish 

 " in soils and under conditions which vary very much, from 

 a saline marsh to a mountain bog." Mr. Toundrow's remark 

 on his discovery of it is interesting : — " In February, 1884," he 

 says, " I met with one large tuft, bearing about thirty old 

 flowering stems. From that time onward it produced a lessen- 

 ing number, until in the dry season of 1887 it only bore three 

 or four very short and weakly stems, and then, apparently, died 

 out, as I have failed to find any trace of it since." Mr. J. Lloyd 

 Williams describes three stations in North Wales where it was 

 discovered. The first was near the Port-Madoc embankment, 

 which is built on land reclaimed from the sea. " The soil," 

 he says, " is sandy, but not marshy. /. tenuis is confined to 

 cattle tracks which intersect a portion of it, and it extends along 

 several of them for twenty or thirty yards. I failed to find it 

 in the wetter parts near the water, or in the better land near 

 the railway. On subsequent visits with botanical friends we 

 had some difficulty in finding it again. The part where it used 

 to flourish best had been railed off from the cattle; the tracks 

 had been overgrown with herbage, and the Juncus had all dia- 



