96 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxvi. 



It occurs in Shetland ! , Caithness ! , and Sutherland ! . It 

 is also a Faroen species, but is not included in Stefansson's 

 " Flora Islands," ] 901. 



It is not recorded from Greenland, but occurs at 70° N. 

 lat. at the mouth of the Yenisei (Scheutz., 1888), and nearly 

 as far north in Norway, Alten, 69° 56' (Norman). 



Arthur Bennett. 



Juncus alpinus, Vill., in Kirkcudbright. Mr. G. West 

 records x this species from the drier parts of some of the 

 sandy bays of Loch Grennoch by Cairnsmore of Fleet. 



It is there associated with " a dwarf form of Scirpus 

 palustris about 4 inches high, with short, stout, very scaly 

 rhizomes and few flowering stems." 



This loch " is a fine sheet of water 2 miles long by § mile 

 wide, at an elevation of 690 feet above sea-level." 



This makes eleven Scottish vice-counties in which this 

 species is recorded, and it will eventually, I think, be found 

 in others, especially in Orkney and the Outer Hebrides. 



I quite expect to hear of its occurrence in England on 

 the north-west coast, where Sagina nodosa, L., var. monili- 

 formis, Meyer,* 2 was detected this year by Dr. Graebner, 

 and specimens of which Mr. Travis has kindly sent me. 

 This variety occurs on the Friesien Islands, and Bornholm 

 in Denmark, where it grows associated with Juncus 

 alpinus. 



The Juncus is on record for Glamorgan (Dr. Vachell sp.) 

 only, outside Scotland, in the British Isles. 



Dr. Buchenau combines under alpinus: J. alpestris, 

 Hartm. ; J. atratus, Fries ; ./. fusco-ater, Schreb. ; J. 

 ustulatus, Hoppe ; and J. nodulosus, Whlbg. 



Arthur Bennett. 



Philonotis rigida, Brid. — Mr. James M'Andrew made an 

 interesting addition to the Perthshire list of mosses last 

 May, when he collected a specimen of Philonotis rigida, 

 Brid., at Aberfoyle (v.c. 87). The determination was con- 



1 " Cont. Conip. Study of Dominant Phanerogamic, etc., Flora of 

 Aquatic Habit in Scottish Lakes," in Proc. Roy. Soc. of Edin., xxx. 

 (1910), p. 113. 



2 " Hann. Magazine," 1824, p. 169. 



