SCOTTISH FORMS OF SPARGANIUM 95 



Biol., " xviii., 3, 393, 1893. ^sle of Gigha, v.c. loi, A. Somer- 

 ville sp. Colonsay, v.c. 102, M. M'Xeill sp. var. rostrata 

 (Larsson sp.), " Fl. Vermland och Dal," ed. i, 1859. Islay, 

 v.c. 102, A. Somerville sp. 



The var, microcarpiiDi of raviosiini is the one most nearly 

 approaching in habit, etc. , to 5. negiectuvi, Beeby. 



The only Scottish specimens seen of 6". neglectiini, Beeby, 

 are from the Isle of Lismore, v.c. 98, S. Macvicar.^ 



Mr. Beeby remarked on these specimens: — "From a care- 

 ful examination of your Spargaiiia^ they certainly appear to 

 me to be S. neglectinn. But hitherto the northern limit has 

 been v.c. 62, N.E. York ; while on the west side there is 

 nothing north of Cheshire !. Hence I should have been glad 

 to have seen a ripe fruit. The extension of range is remark- 

 able ; however, it occurs in Denmark (v. sp.), in almost the 

 same latitude as Berwick, c. 55" 50', while Lismore is c. 

 56' 30'. There are records for the mainland of Sweden on 

 good authority up to about 50' 10'. Another at 59' will 

 decidedly require confirmation. I cannot do other than 

 name your plant vS. negiectuvi." — Beeby, 8/10/1898. 



Contrasting these against Mr. Burkhill's from Scarborough, 

 York (1896), the fruit is decidedly smaller, and the Scar- 

 borough specimens would perhaps come nearer to the var. 

 oocdrpum, Celak, in " Oest. Bot. Zeit.," 425, 1896. 



6". affine zosterifolmin is taken as the type by Neuman; 

 whether this is so with reference to Schnizlein's specimens 1 

 am unable to say, as I have not seen a type specimen. 



Ascherson and Graebner- under affine cite " vS. alpinum, 

 Don ex G. Don, in ' Loud. Hort. Brit.,' 375, 1830, name only." 

 But in Headrick's " Survey of Forfar" (181 3) Don uses the 

 name S. nutans'^ as found in the Lake of Forfar. 



So far as I have seen there seems to be little variation in 

 the other species, i.e. S. simplex, Huds., in Scotland, 



The following are additional records to " Topi. Botany " 

 and Supplement : — 



S. ramosuvi (Ebudes), 102, " S. Ann.," 1906. 



5. neglectum, 74, Wigton, " Ann. Scot. Nat, Hist," lOi, 1910. 



1 "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," p. 39, 1899. 



■- "Sy. Fl. Mitt. Europ." 



^ "Notes, Roy. Bot, Garden, Edin.," No. xiv., p. 215, 1905. 



