ScCARTH—SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS. 59 
in that station. Recent search has caused botanists to fear that 
there too it has gone. The bog has been partly drained. In 
1908 Mr. Druce and Mr. A. J. Evans spent two days at Wybunbury 
in a vain. search for the plant, and again this year (1910) they 
spent a whole day looking for it without result. 
In Scotland, Scheuchzeria used to be found in the White Myre 
of Methven, near Perth. It was discovered there in 1833 by 
Mr. Duff. Writing in the Phytologist in 1858, Mr. John Sim says 
that in June of that year he saw the Scheuchzeria growing luxuri- 
antly and plentifully, and brought home “a good supply, above 
three hundred plants.’’ In the next sentence he says “It is 
nearly done.’’ Mr. Sim has been severely censured for this act 
of vandalism. In justice to him, however, it would appear that 
the ‘‘ it is nearly done” refers to his “ good supply,’’ for he is 
offering plants for exchange, and, in a later paper, he says that 
the Scheuchzeria was still plentiful in August of the same year. 
However, the deed is not one which merits condonement, any the 
less that its author in the same paper expresses the pious opinion 
that ‘“‘ It is very ungracious of any botanist to root up any rare 
plant.’” He gathered it in 1874 for the last time. As it happened, 
these depredations did not matter very much, for other causes 
later made it impossible for the plant to survive there. A large 
colony of black-headed gulls settled in Methven Bog, and caused 
a rank growth of vegetation, to the detriment of smaller plants. 
Then, about 1880, to accommodate the gulls, the myre was flooded 
which would drown the plant if it still existed. It is only on dry 
summers that the place can be reached, yet it has been searched 
since then, but without result, in 1888, by Dr. Buchanan White 
and Mr. Barclay, and again about 1898 by Mr. Barclay and Mr. 
Meldrum. There are specimens from this locality in the Herb- 
arium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 1877, 
and this is probably about the latest date for the plant at this 
station. 
Until this year Scheuchzeria has been found at no other station 
in Britain, and the evidence shows that it is lost and presumably 
extinct at all these stations. In July of this year, however, I 
discovered the plant on Rannoch Moor, in the Perth-Argyll area, 
so that it is still entitled to a place on the British list. It was 
growing there in fair quantity in a very wet, peaty marsh associ- 
ated with Carex limosa and an intermingling of marsh and peat 
moor plants, a combination which appears to be characteristic 
of the habitat of Scheuchzeria, both in this country and in regions 
where it is more plentiful. 
