SCHCENUS. — SCIRPUS. 203 



Probably our plant may be Z. marina j3. angustifolia. It is not Z. 



nana. 



GO. ScHCENUS NIGRICANS. Turfy bogs, not common, many 

 stations that it occupied a few years ago being now under the plough. 

 B. In the ravine above Ross : Lamberton moor: Coldiugham moor 

 below Lumsden. — D. Learmouth bog. 



61. Cladium MARiscus. N. In abundance in Learmouth bogs. 

 Dr. F. Douglas. — B. Lithtillum loch, sparingly. Dr. C. Douglas. 



62. Eleocharis palustris. Marshy places, and at the sides 

 of rivers and ponds, forming dark-green rushy plats or borders. June, 

 July. 



fi3. E. MULTiCAULis. Marshy placcs. I have a " Berwickshire " 

 specimen gathered by Dr. Dunlop, probably in the parish of Buncle. 

 It is considered to be a variety of the preceding by Wahleuberg. Fl. 

 Lapp. p. 14. 



G4. SciRPUS c.ESPiTosus. ©ftr'ig ?^atr. Abundantly on all our 

 moors. " It abounds on deep mossy moors, almost to the exclusion 

 of heath. For the purpose of allowing its growth, the moors are 

 repeatedly burnt, as when the heather has grown three or four years, 

 this grass decreases in value and abundance. The herbage does not 

 come very early. This season, which is a favourable one, it was 

 reckoned soon in the month of May." J. Hardy. Shepherds often 

 confound this plant and Eriophorum vaginatum in their remarks on 

 their merits. 



65. S. PAUCiFLORUs. B. Langstruther and Braid bogs, and 

 Eweside, abundant, J. Hardy. The station on Castle-hills is now 

 destroyed. 



66. S. FLUiTANS = Isolepis fluitans. Ditches and ponds, rare. 

 N. Moor west of Belford, plentiful, Thompson. — B. In deep pools 

 in Penmanshiel Moss burn, J. Hardy. 



67. S. LACUSTRis. JSiiIl Itliisf). Sides of rivers and ponds, fre- 

 quent. July. — Where it grows abundantly, the Bull Rush is cut 

 annually and sold to the coopers, who make use of it in the manu- 

 facture of casks and vessels intended for holding liquids. 



08. S. SETACEUS. Wet sandy and gravelly places, not uncommon 

 on moors. A neat species. July, Aug. 



69. S. CARiciNTjs = Blysmus compressus. Berw. Fl. i. 15. 

 Boggy s])ots in pastures. B. Castle-hills, at the stile below Gallows- 

 hill. Sides of the Whiteadder at the head of Tibby Fowler's glen, 

 and occasionally thence upwards to Hutton Hall mill. Greenlaw 

 dean, and at Lennel, Thos. Thomson. Plentiful in a bog west of 

 Blanerne house. — D. Above the Coves on Holy Island, large and 

 fine. — R. Sides of the Tweed in Fleurs' park, F. Douglas. July. 



70. S. RUFUS = Schocnus rufus = Blysmus rufus. — D. Salt 

 marshes at Beal, abvmdant. — B. In a marsh on the sea-shore between 



