502 ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 



from the pen of Dr. Balfour, printed in Phji;ologist, ii. p. 

 308, should be deemed sufficient authority for the addi- 

 tion of the province of East Highlands to the true area, 

 and the county of Perth to the indication of north limit 

 for this species : "Mr. Stewart Murray observed the plant 

 in ditches near Mickleour in Perthshire," writes Prof. 

 Balfour, " and I have a specimen from the station, 

 picked by Mr. Gorrie. Hopkirk mentions the j)lant as 

 gi'owing near Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, but I have not 

 been able to see it in that locality." Did the Professor 

 intend us to understand that he had not been able to seek 

 the plant near Old Kilpatrick ? — or, that he had sought 

 it there, and had not been able to find it ? His re- 

 sidence (Glasgow) for some time near the habitat men- 

 tioned by Hopkirk, may iacUne us to the latter reading, 

 although the words might be taken in either sense. The 

 Rev. W. W. Newbould supplies the deficiency of my 

 memorandum respecting Rumex maximus, mentioned on 

 page 343 of volume second, by a reference to the first 

 edition of Babington's Manual of British 3otaiij. When 

 I had occasion to look into the Manual while wiiting the 

 second volume of the Cybele, I consulted the second edi- 

 tion of Mr. Babington's work, where R. maximus is not 

 alluded to. 



944*. Rumex aqiiaticus, vol. ii. p. 343. 



The north limit may be traced across Orknej^, on au- 

 thority of Mr. Syme, who finds both this species and R. 

 crispus there. The Rev. W. T. Bree states in Phyto- 

 logist, iv. 103, that Rumex aquaticus is plentiful by the 

 sides of ditches in the Whittlesea fens ; but very likely it 

 was R. Hydrolapathum that was seen there. I am in- 

 debted to Dr. Walker Amott for a specimen of Rumex 

 from Scotland, which is probably the R. conspersus of 

 Hartmann, much resembling R. pratensis, but with a 



