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and Mr. Macvicar (14), a resident in Moidart, accepted it 

 as such, as did Dr. Trail (15) in 1903. 



Its history begins with Smith in his Com p. Fl. Brit, 

 in 1800. In 1810, in Eng. Bot., t. 2174, he records it as: 

 "Found by Mr. G. Don in 1795 or 1796, by the side of a 

 rivulet in marshy ground among the mountains of Angus- 

 shire, but very rarely. It appears to us to be a nondescript, 

 but we received from Mr. Dickson, some few years before 

 the above date, a specimen, not so far advanced towards 

 maturity, of what seems to us the same species." Hence 

 it was recorded in the Floras with more or less distrust : 

 then Mr. Towndrow's (3) record, followed the following 

 year by a plate and description, etc., by Mr. Ridley (4). 



In 1887 Mr. J. Mc Andrew (2), then of New Galloway, 

 sent me specimens from the " roadside where it grew for 

 about three-quarters of a mile west of New Galloway, near 

 a house, with Juncus squarrosus, J. lamprocarpus, grasses, 

 etc., and one cannot see how it could have come there." 

 These specimens are much more native looking than any 

 others I possess, and are stout, well grown, and with 

 abundance of seed. 



In 1889 Dr. Scully (6) reported it from Ireland in Co. 

 Kerry, and since that date (as will be shown later) records 

 have been frequent. A list of the Irish localities is given 

 in the 2nd edition of the Cybele Hibernica, p. 359 (1898). 

 There, and by Dr. Scully (6), the kind of stations, etc, it is 

 found in are fully described. At p. 359 the authors remark : 

 " The wild rocky peninsula between Kenmare River and 

 Bantry Bay, where, in parts, it seems to be the commonest 

 of the Junci, and has at least all the appearance of a 

 native." 



In August 1863 Mr. J. Thomson of Dennistoun, Kil- 

 malcolm, sent a specimen to the Greenock Museum, under 

 the name of Juncus acutiflorus. In October 1889 (13) 

 Messrs. King, Evving, and Thomson, found the plant " in 

 more or less abundance, at a place where the soil is rather 

 sandy." It occurred between Bridge of Weir and Kil- 

 malcolm, the original (1863) locality. 



With regard to the original specimens of Don, Messrs. 

 Hooker and Arnot, in the 6th edition of the Brit. Flora, 

 464 (1860), remark: "We have specimens from Don's 



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