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himself, and submitted them to Mr. "William Barclay, 

 Perth, the well-known authority on our wild roses. He, 

 in turn, forwarded them to Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., our 

 Associate, who replied : " I can make nothing else of the 

 specimens than C. divisa of Hudson, a very interesting 

 re-find after many years have passed " : and, he added, 

 " The specimens have evidently been arrested in growth, 

 probably from drought, and are small and not well de- 

 veloped, but they are C. divisa, Hudson." 



By the meeting by Mr. Menzies with this Sedge in 

 Forfarshire, not only is Don's doubted record of it from 

 that county confirmed, but the plant is with confidence 

 restored to the flora of Scotland. 



In the " Phytologist " for 1842, at page 405, there 

 appears a communication from the late Thomas Edmonston, 

 of Shetland, a Professor of Botany for a short time in 

 Glasgow, who, as is known, had a remarkable but brief 

 career. In this communication, Edmonston gives a list of 

 additions made by himself to the known flora of ten miles 

 round Edinburgh, in which list curiously there appears the 

 following item : — " Carex divisa. Pentland hills, scarce." 

 Professor Trail, however, in his " Topographical Botany of 

 Scotland," treats this record as unreliable, and as an error, 

 as the occurrence of C. divisa in the Pentlands has never 

 been confirmed. 



I am indebted for much of the information in this paper 

 to the short article referred to, contributed by Mr. Barclay 

 to the "Annals of Scottish Xatural History" in*1901, in 

 which he embodied valuable notes sent to him by Mr. 

 Bennett regarding Don's connection with the Sedge in the 

 county of Forfar, with the plants of which district Don 

 was, as we know, so intimately accjuainted. 



[At the reading of this paper there was exhibited a 

 dried specimen of C. divisa, Hudson, from Forfarshire, and, 

 for comparison, specimens from Suifolk (collected by 

 Mr. E. S. Salmon, F.L.S.), and from Co. "Wexford (collected 

 by Miss L. S. Glascott, and confirmed by ^Ir. Arthur 

 Bennett, F.L.S.)]. 



