SHORT NOTES I 1 7 



Short Notes. 



[// IS hoped that all will combine to make this section as complete as possible 

 by the pfompt recording of all " 7iew records " etc.] 



Phikynotis rigida, Brid. — Mr. James IVPAndrew made an interest- 

 ing addition to the Perthsliire list of mosses last May, when he 

 collected a specimen of Philonotis rigida, Brid., at Aberfoyle 

 (v.c. 87). The determination was confirmed by Mr. H. N. Dixon. 

 This species is not entered in the census catalogue for any of the 

 Scottish counties, although it has been reported from Orkney at 

 least, if not from elsewhere in Scotland. As, however, it is mainly a 

 southern species it was thought safer, in the absence of specimens, 

 to omit the record. R. H. Meldrum. 



Cornus snecica, Linn., in Peeblesshire (v.c. 78). — I am glad to be 

 able to record this species from Peeblesshire. On loth June 191 1 

 my brother, Mr. W. T. Blackwood, drew my attention to a small 

 patch on the Dollar Law containing about a dozen flowering heads. 

 The area covered was very limited, but later in the day another small 

 patch was found. 



So far as I am aware this plant is at present recorded from 

 Scottish vice-counties 112, 108, 107, 106, 105, 98, 97, 96, 94, 92, 

 90, 89, and 88. 



South of Perth and Forfar it has not been noted except from 

 62 York n. east, and 68 Cheviotland. In "Topographical Botany" 

 Watson, however, gives, " 83 Edinburgh by a trick ? " but in the 

 appendix to both the first and second editions of Lightfoot's " Flora 

 Scotica " it is recorded from the Pentlands on the authority of 

 Dr. Hope. It would be more satisfactory if this old record were 

 confirmed, as it probably can be. 



The Peeblesshire record is interesting as being a connecting link 

 between the English and the other Scottish stations. 



G. G. Blackwood. 



Zostera nana. Roth., in Aberlady Bay, Haddingtonshire (v.c. 82), 

 etc. — With reference to the extract from the Report of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club for 19 10, given in the first number of tiiis magazine 

 (p. 53), I have to point out that I recorded Zostera nana from 

 Aberlady Bay so long ago as 1889 in the " Transactions of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh" (vol. xvii. p. 415). In my note, 

 which is entitled, " On the Occurrence of Zostera na?ia, Roth., in the 

 Firth of Forth," I also recorded the plant from the mud flats west of 

 Cramond (v.c. 84), and near Torryburn (v.c. 85). These records 

 apparently escaped Professor Trail's notice when he drew up his 

 "Topographical Botany of the River-Basins of Forth and Tweed" 

 (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1903). William Evans. 



