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has been observed. At an immatuie stage this Carex was 

 tliought to exliibit more the habit of C mrnaria, and it became 

 therefore desirable for its thorough identification to procure 

 specimens in a state of maturity. Progress was repoi'ted by an 

 occasional visit ; but when at last I went to secure the coveted 

 specimens I found the scythe of the mower had passed over the 

 place — perhaps had taken a wider sweep, impelled by the harder 

 times — and in place of these Carices now being placed on the 

 table for your inspection, they went to swell the crop of meadow 

 liay. I iiope to have better luck with it this coming season. C. 

 Ii)i)(isii is a valuable addition to our local Carices. I gathered it 

 in Glencairn in a situation which has every appearance of being 

 a permanent locality for this rather rare Carex. A form of 

 Carex fulva, gathered in the vicinity of Moniaive, which I passed 

 on to our eminent referee, Mr Bennett of Croydon, was con- 

 sidered by him to be the sterilis variety of Syme, and which he 

 thinks is either the same or nearly the same as Xanthocarpa. 

 Perhaps the most interesting find, and which also occurs in Glen- 

 cairn, is a second station in the county for the so-called Nu2}Jiar 

 intermedia. It seems to very closely resemble the Sanquhar 

 plant, and indeed is probably identically the same, as the circum- 

 stances in both cases are similar. In both places apparently 

 they are the only form of Nuphar present, and in addition, the 

 localities occur at al^out the same altitude, and both ai'e in 

 the peat formation. I submitted specimens to Mr Bennett, 

 who believed them to be Nuphar lutea, var. minor, of the third 

 edition of English Botany, but was not certain whether they 

 were the N. intermedia of Ledebun, which he said was con- 

 sidered a hybrid between N. pumila and N. lutea. Mr Bennett 

 wrote me later on that the Nuphars were by no means settled, 

 that the descriptions did not fit some of the supposed N. pumila 

 plants of Perth, Aberdeen, <fec. He further expressed the 

 opinion tiiat it was only by collecting material and submitting it 

 to Dr Caspay, who is the authority on the genus, that he could 

 hope to see our species and varieties properly arranged. It cer- 

 tainly looks a unique occurrence to have two stations in the 

 county so distinctly apart for this plant, when the nearest places 

 it is recorded from are in East Fife and Northumberland. The 

 only other new plants to record for the district are Bhi/nco,spor(( 

 (dha and JuncuK fiupinux, variety fliiiUmx, the former from an 

 upland moor in Closelnirn and the latter from near Penpont. 



