180 Mr Arthur Bennett on [sess. lii. 



Hartman, Hand, i Skan. Flmrt (ed. 11), 1879, p. 383. 

 Blytt, Norges Flora, p. 396. 

 Nyman, Consp. Flor. Eur op., p. 250. 



In Europe it occurs in Sweden, in Skane, W. Bothnia, 

 Oland, Gotland, Lapland, and in Norwfiy to 66° 5'. 



Gathered by Mr Beeby, in August 1887, in the Shetland 

 Isles, and determined by Dr H. Nilson of the Lund Botanical 

 Museum. L^nfortunately, Mr Beeby only gathered two sheets 

 of it, so I am able only to send a Swedish specimen for the 

 Herbarium ; but he "tells jne it occurred in abundance, and 

 -he hopes to gather it again next summer. 



Juncus tenuis, Willd., spec. 2, 214 (1799). 



/. gracilis. Smith, in English Botany, No. 2176 (1816), 

 J. gesneri, Sn^ith, in English Flora, vol. ii. p. 167 



(1828). 

 G. C. Druce, in Scottish Naturalist (1883^), p. 264. 

 H. X. Ridley, in Journal of Botany (1885), p. 1. 

 Fig. Eeichenbach, Ic. Flor. Germ., pi. 393, fig. 887. 

 Pddley, Journal of Botany, t. 253 (1885). 



In Europe it occurs in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany. 

 In America and in New Zealand ; but my friend Mr 

 Cheeseman, who found it there, now thinks it may have been 

 introduced. 



Gathered by Mr M'Andrew " on the roadside three- 

 quarters of a mile west of New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, 

 near a house, along with Juncus squarrosus, J. la77iprocar2nis, 

 and grasses, &c." There may sound something of suspicion 

 in this station, but the plant occurs in exactly similar places 

 on the Continent, and is scattered in a peculiar way over its 

 area of growth. Tiu; iiiier(!st in tliis spe(;ies is that it is 

 " one of Don's reputed discoveries," and said to have been 

 found by him, " in 1795 or 1796, by the side of a rivulet or 

 marshy ground among the mountains of Angusshin?, but 

 very rarely." No one has since found this in S(;otland, until 

 Mr M'Andrew's interesting find. In 1883 a single tuft of it 

 was found by Mr Towndrow in Herefordshire. Yull par- 

 ticulars of Don's ]jlant will be found in Mr Druee's article 

 in the ScoUish Naturalist for 1883-84. 



