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Caithness station, so I should not be surprised to hear of its 

 discovery by some of the rivers that flow into the Moray Firth. 



Carex acuta, L., var. prolixa (Fr. sp.) — Found as long ago as 

 1844 by Mr Priest in Norfolk. I found a specimen in Mr 

 Glaspoles' herbarium ; and again this year a specimen in the 

 herbarium of tlie Rev. Mr Linton, gathered by Mr Cross near 

 Ely, in Cambridgeshire. 



Carex acida, L., var. gracilesceus (Almquist). — Found by Mr 

 A. Fryer in Cambridgeshire, and by Mr Beckwith in Shropshire. 



Carex aquatilis, Wahl. var. epigejos (Hartm.)— This, described 

 as a species by Fries, and named the same year by Dr Lange 

 C. horealis, was found in Perthshire by Dr White of Perth. 



Carex aquatilis, Wahl. var. cuspidata (Laestidius). — Gathered 

 on the banks of the River Wick in Caithness last year by my 

 friend Mr F. J. Hanbury, among wliose specimens of salina I 

 found it, my name having been since confirmed by Dr Almquist 

 of Stockholm. 



Carex aquatilis, Wahl. var. virescens (Anders). — A pretty 

 form of this plant found in Perthshire. 



Carex striata. Good, var. titr/osa (Fr. sp.) — Described by Fries 

 as a species. Found by Mr A. Fryer in Cambridgeshire. 



Carex rigida, Gooil, var. inferaljnna, Laestidius. — Found by 

 Mr F. J. Hanbury on the little Culrannoch in Forfarshire last 

 year. I have little doubt that the plant referred to by Dr 

 Boswell in tlie third edition of English Botany as occurring in 

 Little Craigendahl, Braemar, and simulating aquatilis, is the 

 same. 



Carex vesicaria, L., var. diochroa (Anders). — I have only seen 

 a single specimen of this gathered on Ben Lawers by Mr G. C. 

 Durce of Oxford. 



Spartina Townsendii (Groves). — Near Southampton, a grass 

 coming somewhat between striata and alterniflora. 



Agrestis nigra (Withering). — • Found by Mr Bagnell of 

 Birmingham in Warwickshire, and since in several English 

 counties, and in Fifeshire by Dr Boswell. 



Calamagrostis strigosa (Hartm.), Stivhaarct Ror., stiff-haired 

 reed. — Marshy ground, formerly Loch Duran, near Castleton, in 

 Caithness, Scotland. Mr James Grant, of Wick. A native of 

 Finmark, Lapland, North Norway, in Europe, and Nova Zemblia. 

 Sir J. D Hooker, in his paper on " Arctic Plants " in the Tran- 

 sactions of the Linnean Society, makes the C. aleuiica (Bongard) 



