x PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
2. ATRIPLEX CALOTHECA, FRIES, AS A SCOTTISH SPECIES. 
By Mr. ARTHUR BENNETT. (See p. 18.) 
Miss I. M. Haywarp showed specimens of Sirex gigas, 
S. noctilio, and Trichiosoma lucorum, together with wood 
bored by the larve of the two former. The insects had 
been identified by Mr. Wm. Evans, F.R.S.E. 
The Rev. J. J. M. L. Arken, B.D., showed Carex Boen- 
ninghausiana, Weihe, from Northumberland. Of this new 
county record he says :— 
CAREX BOENNINGHAUSIANA: ITS OCCURRENCE IN NORTH- 
UMBERLAND. By Rev. J. J. M. L. AIKEN, B.D., Ayton. 
Up to the summer of 1908 the subject of this note had 
not been reported from the Border country. In July last, 
however, I had occasion, along with Mr. Wm. B. Boyd, 
Faldonside, to be in the neighbourhood of Edlingham, the 
first station on the Alnwick and Coldstream railway, and 
while devoting attention to Sedges in particular, we came 
upon a belt of brushwood which bounds the eastern bank 
of the burn of that name as it flows northward to join the 
Aln near Bolton. From its nature it gave promise of 
proving interesting and productive, the rills from the moor 
beyond rendering the soil in places very marshy, and the 
thick cover of natural scrub conducing to the growth of 
various forms of plant life. On closer examination a 
specially damp portion of the copsewood gave evidence of 
an abundance of Carex paniculata and C. remota in close 
proximity. This noteworthy circumstance induced a more 
diligent search of the undergrowth, in the hope that the 
rare hybrid resulting from them might be discovered also, 
an expectation which was shortly realised, as among plants 
of C. remota was distinguished what, on comparison, proved 
to be C. Boenninghausiana. 
Though fairly plentiful, the plants were confined to a 
very limited area; and while conspicuous in colour, their 
dark green stems asserted themselves through being 
studded at intervals with membranous, silvery-brown 
spikelets which extended from three to six inches along 
their upper ends. In length they varied from eighteen to 
