Trrm fin cf inns. 153 



and C. Nutkaensis (Trinius) to be the same as strigosa, recording 

 it also as a Greenland plant, but it is unknown to the Danish 

 botanists as such ; if this is correct it will extend its distribution 

 to Arctic, East and West America, and North-east Asia. 



Wlien Dr Smiles' " Life of Robert Dick " appeared, I noted 

 his record of finding the " Lapland Rush (Calamajroslis lap- 

 ponica) " at Loch Duran. I wrote to Mr Grant, asking him to 

 explore the loch, and send me specimens of the plant, as I 

 suspected it could hardly be the true lapponica of Wahlenberg. 

 In 1883 he wrote — " The loch has been drained, and I fear the 

 plant is lost." However, it was not until last July that he could 

 make a thorough search, and he was rewarded by finding Dick's 

 plant ■ he kindly forwarded me some specimens. I found it was 

 certainly not the lapponica of Wahlenberg nor that of Hooker, 

 which, Dick no doubt thought it might be. I found, on examina- 

 tion, it was either the strigosa of Hartman or the C. borealia of 

 Laestidius, but having no specimens of either to make sure, I 

 seiat it to my friend, Mr N. E. Brown, of the Kew Herbarium, 

 asking him to compare the specimen with tliose in Fries Her- 

 bai'ium Normale. His answer was — " The specimen must be 

 C. strigosa, though the ligule is not quite so acute as in the 

 typical specimens." Since then, I have sent examples to Dr 

 Almquist, of Stockholm. Concerning the name given to it, he 

 says the specimens are very near the Norwegian examples. It is 

 one of the most interesting additions to the British Flora ever 

 made, for in conjunction with Carez salina and others, it sliows 

 how close the affinity of the Flora of North Scotland is with that 

 of Scandinavia, and I venture to predict, that other Scandi- 

 navian species will yet be found, not only in Caithness, but in the 

 Shetland Isles and other parts of Scotland, especially nortli of the 

 Caledonian Canal. 



Scandinavia is very rich in the genus Calanuigrostis, and 

 opinions differ as to whetlier some of the plants are hybrids or 

 not. Anyone interested in changes in plant-names could find 

 plenty of materials in this genus in the successive editions of 

 Hartman's " Handbook of the Scandinavian Flora," from the 

 first to the eleventh. 



Lycopodium complanatv/m. — Found by Rev. Mr Reader in 

 Gloucestershire, and since in several counties, though several are 

 doubtful, and Dr Boswell doubts any of the specimens being the 



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