TRANSACTIONS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXXXIII. 



Calamagrostis stricta and C. strigosa. 

 By A. Bennett, A.L.S. 



(Read 2nd October 1918.) 



G. stricta, Timm (sub Arundo), in Both. n. Beit., i, 118 

 (1782). I use the above name and reference for the present 

 as the name and author are not finally settled. 



The first record of stricta was in Eng, Bot.,,t. 2160 (1810), 

 from " a marsh called the White Mire a mile from Forfar, 

 June 1807." It became extinct here about 1813 through 

 the marsh being drained for its marl. In 1836 it was found 

 by Dr. Moore in Ireland ; in 1846 by the Rev. G. E. Smith 

 at Delemere in Cheshire ; in 1887 I recorded it from 

 Yorkshire in the Naturalist, p. 201. In 1914 it was 

 sent me from Hockham and Stow Bedon in Norfolk by 

 Mr. Robinson. In Caithness it was found about 1866 by 

 Robert Dick ^ of Thurso. 



The following varieties are now on record for the British 

 Isles. 



1. var. Hookeri, Syme, Eng. Bot., ed. 3, xi, 56 (1872). 

 Armagh, Tyrone, Derry, and Antrim, Ireland. Stow Bedon !, 

 Norfolk. 



2. var. borealis (Laest., sub Artmdo). Killin, Mid. Perth. 



Mr. Druce, 1888 !, and Mr. Burdon 1917 !. Described by 



Laestadius in Bid. till Kami. Tornea Lappmark, p. 44 



(1864). 



1 Smiles' Life of R. Dick, 340 (1878). 



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