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firmed by Mr. H. X. 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 suecica, Linn., in Peeblesshire (v.c. 78). — I am 

 glad to be able to record this species from Peeblesshire. 

 On 10th June 1911 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 

 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 " Topo- 

 graphical 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 con- 

 firmed, as it probably can be. 



The Peeblesshire record is interesting as being a con- 

 necting: 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 1910, given in 

 the "Scottish Botanical Review" (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 nana, 

 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 



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