1888-89.] Mr A. Bennett on Calamagrostis striata. 417 



depauperatum primum piitavi, differt glumis duplo brevioribus 

 non acuniinatis, et a C. strigosa eadem nota. 



It occurs in Finmark, Lapland, and West Bothnia in 

 Europe. In Greenland given by Dr Lange in his Con- 

 spectus Florce Grcenlandicce with a mark of doubt; but it 

 was gathered by the Swedish Expedition in 1883, and 

 recorded by Berlin in the Stockholm Transactions. 



I do not find it recorded for the Asiatic coast in 

 Kjellman's account of the Vega Expedition ; and Professor 

 Macoun does not give it in his lately published Canadian 

 Catalogue, though I should not be surprised to hear that it 

 has been discovered in Arctic British America. 



I have much pleasure in sending a specimen for the 

 Herbarium. 



JVotes on the Records of Scottish Plants during 1888. 

 By Aethue Bennett, F.L.S. 



(Read 11th April 1889.) 



Last year I gave a resume of the principal records that 

 were made in 1887, which the Society has done me the 

 honour to print in the Transactions. I propose here to 

 briefly notice the results of 1888. 



I cannot report such an array of new species to the 

 country as in 1887, but I have to notice one belonging to 

 Gharacece, viz., Nitella hatrachosperma, A. Br. (or a boreal 

 form of N. tenuissima, Kiitz.), which is an addition to the 

 Scottish Flora, and new to Britain if it prove the former. 

 It was gathered last July near Obbe, in Harris, one of the 

 Outer Hebrides, in a loch, by Mr Duncan, and sent to me 

 by Mr King of Preston, Lancashire. Perhaps one of the 

 most interesting of the plants gathered in 1888 is Calama- 

 grostis stricta, Nutt., var. horcalis, Hartm. {Deyeuxia ncglecta, 

 Kunth, var. horealis, mihi), found by Mr G. C. Druce in a 

 marsh by the Tay side in Mid Perth ; thus restoring to 

 Scotland a plant, the type of which Don and Robert Brown 

 had gathered in Forfar, but whence it has been lost for many 

 years. I am very glad to be able to send a specimen for 

 the Herbarium (see record of last meeting). 



So far as Hicracia are concerned, my records will not be 



