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have not seen such stem leaves on any specimen as there 

 represented, and the description says " rarely denticulate." 



A. Bennett. 



Utricidario vulgaris, L., in Caithness. — Good specimens 

 of the above (though not in flower) have been sent me by 

 Miss I. Lillie and Mr. G. Lillie from Loch Watten on the 

 east coast of Caithness. There are several of the winter 

 buds ; these are strongly setose, with translucent, spinose- 

 like hairs, and the young leaves are spinose-setose. The 

 young bladders are semi-transparent, the older ones also, 

 but with the addition of a yellowish nucleus. This definitely 

 records the species for the county. A. Bennett. 



Cfbicus oleraceus, Linn. = Cirsium oleraceum, Scop. — This 

 plant has occurred this season on a marshy meadow by the 

 side of the Tay, left bank, about a mile below Perth. It 

 forms a small patch comprising about sixt}- or seventy 

 flowering shoots, and was certainly not there, at least in 

 the flowering stage, till this season. How it came I am 

 unable to conjecture, as it is certainly not a plant likely 

 to be cultivated, and the meadow, though cut, consists of 

 natural herbage only, and is never sown. Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett informs me that it occurred in Lincolnshire from 

 1832 to 1840 on the Fen banks, and I believe it has been 

 found in Scotland amongst other casuals. The plant was 

 named for me at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh. It has yellow flowers. Near to the 

 same place a little patch of Sanguisorba caiuhdensis, Linn., 

 has kept its place amongst some alder bushes for more than 

 half a century. Till this year I have never seen any signs 

 of its spreading. But this summer at least three other 

 patches, at about a hundred yards further down and clear 

 of the bushes, have made their appearance and have 

 flowered freely. One patch in the middle of the meadow 

 forms a circle of a good many yards in diameter and com- 

 prises a considerable number of plants. Possibly the very 

 hot summer of last year may have more thoroughly 

 ripened the seeds and thus enabled the plant to extend 

 its area. 



June us tenuis, Linn. — In going through Glen Ogle in 



