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Short Notes. 



Saxifraga uizoides, L. — Among plants from Orkney sent by Mr. M. 

 Spence are two specimens of the above Saxifrage, and answering to 

 the description of the f. aurantia of Hartmann, " Vet. Ak. Handl.," 

 1818. The leaves are orange, shading to yellow at the apex. The 

 lower stem leaves are suffused with red, and the fruit is orange-red 

 (only half-ripe). The leaves are quite entire, very thick, with here and 

 there a long patent hair. This form occurs in Norway, with the 

 oroinary form in Sweden, and rarely in Russian and Finnish Lapland. 

 Is not the figure in "English Botany," t. 59, quite a rare form? I 

 have not seen such stem leaves on any specimen as there represented, 

 and the description says "rarely denticulate." A. Bennett. 



Utricularia vulgaris L., in Caithness. — Good specimens of the 

 above (though not in flower) have been sent me by Miss L Lillie 

 and Mr. G. Lillie from Loch Watten on the east coast of Caithness. 

 There are several of the winter buds ; these are strongly setose, with 

 translucent, spinose-like hairs, and the young leaves are spinose-setose. 

 The young bladders are semi-transparent, the older ones also, but 

 with the addition of a yellowish nucleus. This definitely records 

 the species for the county. A. Bennett. 



Cniciis oleraceus Lin. = Cirsium oleraceum Scop. — This plant has 

 occurred this season on a marshy meadow by the side of the Tay, 

 left bank, about a mile below Perth. It forms a small patch com- 

 prising about sixty or seventy flowering shoots and was certainly 

 not there, at least in the flowering stage, till this season. How it 

 came I am unable to conjecture, as it is certainly not a plant likely 

 to be cultivated, and the meadow, though cut, consists of natural 

 herbage only, and is never sown. Mr. Arthur Bennett informs me 

 that it occurred in Lincolnshire from 1832 to 1840 on the Fen 

 banks, and I believe it has been found in Scotland amongst other 

 casuals. The plant was named for me at the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. It has yellow flowers. Near 

 to the same place a little patch of Sanguisorba catiadensis Lin. has 

 kept its place amongst some alder bushes for more than half a 

 century. Till this year I have never seen any signs of its spreading. 

 But this summer at least three other patches, at about a hundred 

 yards further down and clear of the bushes, have made their 

 appearance and have flowered freely. One patch in the middle of 

 the meadow forms a circle of a good many yards in diameter and 

 comprises a considerable number of plants. Possibly the very hot 

 summer of last year may have more thoroughly ripened the seeds 

 and thus enabled the plant to extend its area. 



/uncus tenuis Lin. — In going through Glen Ogle in July this sedge 



