‘SOME FORFARSHIRE PLANTS 115 
‘far from Bachnagairn, at 1400 ft. Distinguishable from its peneh: 
bours at a considerable distance by its rage: nd bush-like ‘ine, 
“dense branches, and darker foliage. This  pteskaidie, pede 
.the correctness of the opinion ee in D this Journal 
p- 271), that B. intermedia was nana male x pubescens female ; for 
-here pubescens is abundant, meen nana — prices i highée up the 
valley. Just like the Glen Callater plant of 1886. 
-. *Salia Caprea x Lapponum.—Riverside, between Loch Esk and 
Bachnagairn, in two forms; the first a tall bush, 5-6 ft., much 
tes Lapponum ; the pean a small tree, 8-10 ft., more inter- 
-m ap 
eugenes Linton.— We were fortunate in finding what is 
olehiy. this ‘ateal aah A in good fruit; from the conditions of its 
locality, it is almost certainly a result of fem ale S. herbacea X Lap- 
ponum being fertilized by male S. Myrsinites. 
- *Habenaria conopsea x Orchis: ericetorum Linton.—Near Brae- 
‘doonie; a single specimen. Like H. conopsea in —— narrow 
inflorescence and long slender spur; leaves spotted, narrower 
than in O. ericetorum, Which is the only form of sr i 8 O. macu- 
lees that we have observed in the Highlan 
Allium oleraceum L.—Coast, north-east of Arbro 
Carex curta Good.—A plant from swamps below Cae of Clova 
(2000 ft.) is named by Herr Kiikenthal  C. canescens L. var. fallax 
F. Kurtz (simulating C. brunnescens Pers.).” she however is only 
i 
a synonym of C. canescens var. du week ot. Gaz. ix 
p. 119 (1884), to which a good deal of British Hid aipicol ” probably 
belongs. Prof. Bailey’s description , 1° high, 
longer than the long pointed leaves; gi 3-6, all approximate, 
oblong, 10-20-flowered, light tawny; perigynium gradually nar- 
rowed into a bea f ore g as body, minutely 
longer than the scale. C. helvola Blytt? Carex Cat. Bear River 
Canon, Utah (No. 1231a, King’s Survey) ; perhaps also the 1018 of 
Wheeler’s Survey from Twin Lakes, Colorado. The variety differs 
gynium. Much resembling the European C. helvola, itself a doubt- 
ful species, but differing in its narrower scales and its nerved and 
rough-angled perigynium, ’”  Kiikenthal (in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb: 
pathen, Centralpyrenien, faeries one nae: pent 
Nordamerika alp. (Wahsatch Mts.),” entina, and says that 
it is an alpine form, tending t Seed ih oF A secon eh were 
collected sis 1000 * _— Corrie ‘Bonhard, is called by Kikenthal 
“* C, canescens, form is Lang’’; apparently the same thing, but 
tee ca itng “for identification, grew above the corrie at 2700 ft. _This 
d be more correctly cited as var. tenuis O. F. Lang in . 
Toe, p. 588. Lange, Haandb. Danske mig oe 4, 127, gives the 
following description :—‘‘ More slender, rougher stem and 
narrower and more flaccid leaves; co coca half as large as 
