42 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Szss. ixrx. 
appearance—although it was noticed that they fe rather 
small and pale. 
A specimen sent by me to Edinburgh ix ‘the- Sos was not 
recognised by Professor Dickson, who examined my collection. 
In 1884 a single specimen was sent to A. Bennet, among 
others. He observed that it was a strange plant, and on 
consulting other botanists found it to be Carex salina, var. 
kattegatensis, common in Sweden, but not hitherto reported 
as found in this country. From further specimens forwarded 
(1885), the naming has been confirmed. The plant was so 
common that it used to be mown to make “bog hay” for 
farm purposes; but probably the recent river improvements 
—the banking and deepening of the sandbank on which the 
Carex grew—must have worked havoc among its ranks. 
Primula scotica (Hook.).—Very abundant on Keiss Links, 
Caithness, and on other bare coast pasture-lands. The plant 
flowers two or three times a year, and the supposed variety 
acaulis is only the latest growth when the plant is consider- 
ably exhausted. From Keiss, Wick, and other localities, I 
have many specimens which have a tall scape of the previous 
flowering still standing, and acauline flowers beneath on a 
branch of the same root stock. The flowers on the scape were 
of course withered, but the scape itself was fresh when gathered. 
The local name for P. scotica is “ Dusty Miller.” The sessile 
flowers and intermediate stages may be plainly seen in 
the specimens submitted. Garden-transplanted specimens 
grow of larger size for a few months, exhibit the same 
characteristics of flowering, etc., but die off on the approach 
of winter. 
Hierochloe borealis (Roem. and Schult.).—‘‘ Holy grass” — 
so called from its use in Turkish cemeteries—was discovered 
by Robert Dick on the banks of Thurso river. It has also 
been reported from the Clova Hills in Forfarshire. In Dick’s 
herbarium in Thurso museum specimens are so marked. In 
the “ Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc.,” 1854, will be found an account 
of the localities where Dick got the Hierochloe. Some of the 
specimens of the plant submitted were gathered quite 
recently in the vicinity of Dick’s discovery, but the grass 
is extremely rare. 
Mimulus luteus (Linn.).—Only one variety is noted in the 
London Catalogue, 9th edition, but there seem to be two in 
