168 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 
Sette bps oe Lej., var. congesta Koch. Loch Duran (109), 
as well as the type. 
P. shies nitens Web. This varies much in appearance. The 
Loch Winless specimens were dull brownish sare “ intermediate 
between the type and var. curvifolius”” (Mr. Bennett). Those from 
e Wick River were bright (grass-) green, wihetbab those from near 
Thurso were reddish, and were gathered for P. rufescens 
eocharis uniglumis Link, «The Wick River form seems different 
rae ee of Shetland (Beeby sp.), and from all — si magie we 
possess or have seen, the heads being much shorter and rounder. 
The Rey. E. F. Linton thinks it distinct ; and we may ‘ined more 
to write on the subject — 
+ Schenus ba erg L., var. nana Lan Specimens from Loch 
Dr. Lange, who Teports: “Carex, species ee incognita. E spe- 
cimine unico vix determinationi accederim.” The gradations 
appearance . 
pilulifera L. A form with very long, acute glumes is fairly common 
among the Cairngorms, and in Glen Callater (apparently _ arate 
2000 ft.). Its bracts vary greatly in size, an nnet 
does not consider it to be var. J.cesit.——C. capillaris L. On Dusnet 
Links ( 109) this oceurg at gea- level, and nearly as low down at 
Betty Hill (108). — C. pulla L. Little os (92). Without 
personal authority in « Topographical Bot 
Phalaris arundinacea L. The form with hacaigihia leaves (var. 
picta was gathered four miles up the Wick River (109), growing 
with type, far m houses. A single —_ aie by the 
Clunie, atiote half a mile below Braemar (92 
Anthoxanthum odoratum 1, A small specimen, with very large 
fruit and long awns, was found in Corrie Ceannder (92), and was 
thought likely to prove a novelty. Mr. Beeby, on careful examina- 
tion, found it to be affe ected with an Ustilago, like that of the “var. 
pumila” of Agrostis vulgaris, which had completely altered its 
a Yee Hackel) thered 
grostis a de Hackel), was gathere 
by the Naver, at Betty y Hill (108) — 
euxta strigosa Kunth. is in good quantity, and over t fair 
neha of — at Loch Duran (109). It should be found else- 
where in vicinity, b to distinguish Babes the 
shiddle of July. Y, but is not easy gu 
