228 PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. 
sing. 
N. multilineatum var. assamicum. The Assam form alluded to 
a species. The rhizome is very stout and shortly creeping, with 
the stipes approximate; the auricles are small and lanceolate, and 
more like those of truncatum, but the texture of the frond is that of 
multilineatum and Gustavi; were it not for the very different 
rhizome, I should refer it to Gustavi, Tt is important that fiel 
botanists should note how far the rhizome of these two ferns is 
SOME PLANTS OBSERVED IN Bf. SCOTLAND, JULY 
AND AUGUST, 1899, 
By tHe Rev. Epwarp §, Marsuatu, M.A., F.L.S. 
My northern tour last year was a varied one, embracing 
lowland, alpine and maritime districts. Two or three very enjoy- 
able days were spent at Faldonside, Selkirkshire, where I was the 
guest of Mr. W. B, oyd. By his permission I publish here, in 
addition to a few novelties detected by myself, several species 
a : 
Glen Shee; S, Lapponum X nigricans, from Carnlochan; S. Lapponum 
ochsie ; and 8. nigricans X repens 
After leaving Glen Shee I eravellad to Boe 
m examining the littoral and moorland vegetation of the neigh- 
: The most interesting plant obtained was Alisma ranun- 
culoides var. zostertfolium Fries, already recorded in this Journal. 
_ An asterisk denotes a “ new county record”; the Watsonian 
vice-counties being 79 Selkirk, 89 KE, erth, 90 Forfar, 92 8. Aber- 
deen, 96 EB, Inverness, and 106 E. Ross, 
