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- has been observed. At an immature stage this Carex was 
thought to exhibit more the habit of C. arenaria, and it became 
therefore desirable for its thorough identification to procure 
specimens in a state of maturity. Progress was reported 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 : 
hay. I hope to have better luck with it this coming season. C. 
limosa 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 séerilis variety of Syme, and which he 
thinks is either the same or nearly the same as Xunthocarpa. 
Perhaps the most interesting find, and which also occurs in Glen- 
cairn, is a second station in the county for the so-called Nuphar 
intermedia. It seems to very closely resemble the Sanquhar 
plant, and indeed is probably identically the same, as the cireum- 
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 about the same altitude, and both are 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 NV. intermedia of Ledebun, which he said was _ con- 
sidered a hybrid between NV. 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 NV. pumila 
plants of Perth, Aberdeen, &c. He further expressed the 
opinion that 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 Rhyncospora 
alba and Juncus supinus, variety fluitans, the former from an 
upland moor in Closeburn and the latter from near Penpont. 
