314 Mr A. Bennett on 



Botany), and not to the true lapponica of Wahlenberg'3 

 Flora Lapponica. 



It was not, however, until last July that Mr Grant 

 could make a thorough search of the ground formerly 

 occupied by the loch and its borders ; he was successful in 

 finding it, and sent me a supply of fresh specimens and 

 roots. 



On carefully examining these, I found it could not be 

 referred to C. stricta of Nuttal; and on comparing his 

 specimens -with Anderssen's Graminece Scandinavece, and 

 Hartman's Handbook of the Scandinavian Flora, it seemed 

 to me to be either C. strigosa^ Hartm., or C. horealis, 

 Laestadius. As I had no specimens of either, I asked my 

 friend, Mr N. E. Brown of the Kew Herbarium, to compare 

 the specimens wath sfrigosa and horealis in Fries' Herbarium 

 Normale, His reply was : — " The grass is Calamayrostis 

 strigosa, Hartm. ; for though the ligule is less acute than in 

 the typical specimens, still I do not see what else it can be." 

 Since then the name has been confirmed by Dr Almquist, 

 who writes : — " The specimens are very near the Norwegian 

 form." 



This is a very interesting addition to the flora of Caitli- 

 ness, coming so soon after the finding of Carex salina, and 

 showing the affinity of the flora of the extreme north of 

 Scotland with that of Scandinavia, which I venture to 

 predict will be further shown by future discoveries. 



I give some references to the species, with a few re- 

 marks. 



Calamagrostis strigosa, Hartm. in Handhok i Skan. Flora, 

 ed. i. (see Nyman), ed. ii. 1879 ; Fries' Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 240-1 ; Fries' Herharium Normale, fas. 8, No. 86 ; 

 Anderssen's Graminece Scand., p. 97, fig. 99 ; Nyman, 

 Conspectus Floras, Europoecc, p. 799; Arundo strigosa^ 

 Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapponica, t. ii. p. 29 ; Blytt, Rorsk Flora, 

 p. 136 ; et Norges Flora^ p. 86. 



In Europe it was confined to Scandinavia, where it 

 occurs at Alten, in Finmark, about 70° N. lat.; Karesando, 

 in Tornea Lapland, at 66i° N. lat. ; Trondhjem, in North 

 Norway, at 63° 20' N. lat. ; and Caithness, Scotland, at 

 58° 35'. 



If we include C. aleutica of Bongard, and C. nutkaensis of 



