1911-12.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 73 



and S3); Antitricliia curtipcndula Brid. (v.c. 83). and 



several others. Trichostoraum rav.to.hile Bruch ; T. incli- 



naturn Dixon; T. nit id am Schp. ; have yet to be gathered 

 in v.c. 82. 



Saxifeaga Hirculus, L.. in Caithness and its Dis- 

 tribution in the British Isles. By Arthur 

 Bennett. A.L.S. 



Mr. G. Lillie has kindly sent me good flowering specimens 

 of the above species which he found growing " in a floating- 

 bog about ten yards across each way. It was very shaky, 

 but there was not much danger of one sinking in it as 

 there was considerable growth of grasses, plants, and 

 mosses." It occurred between Lybster and Loch Rhuard, 

 altitude 430 feet, 58 c 22' X. lat., about 1§ miles from the 

 loch. The loch itself afforded Lobelia Dortmanna and 

 Subularia aquatic", rare plants in the county. As the 

 water from the loch and the stream running into it is dis- 

 charged into the Loop river, thence to the Little river, and 

 finally into the Thurso river, the plant belongs to the 

 north-west watershed, not to the east. 



S. Hirculus is not on record north of West Perth and 

 Kincardine. 57 : X. lat. : the extension of range north 

 to Caithness is interesting, though it is a high arctic and 

 northern species. 



As a rare species it may be well to summarise its distri- 

 bution in our Isles. 



91. Kincardine. Wet moor on the farm of Jacksburns, 

 Glenbervie. 21.6.1839.— Mr. James Rae. This is the 

 station erroneously given in " Topi. Botany " as " Aberdeen, 

 J. Rae." 



87. Perth. W. Madie Moss, above Tillicoultry, c. 2000 

 feet. Northern side of the Ochils. Clackmannanshire. — ■ 

 Mr. W. Thompson. 



83. Edinburgh. On a wet moor between Fala and Stow. 

 — G. J. Blackie. Three miles beyond Blackshiels, Pentlancl 

 Hills, Midlothian. 11.8.9a— F. C. Crawford sp. 



81. Berwick. Moor south of Langton Lees farmhouse, 

 plentiful.— Dr. Johnston, c. 1831 ; sp. Cardiff Museum ! . 



