The Scottish Naturalist. 



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Var. minor. Commoner than eu-flava ; near Wick ! By 

 Loch Winless, and between Wick and Castletown, Mar- 

 shall J 



Var. lepidocarpa. In marshy ground ; Loch Durran ! 

 By the river above Wick ! 

 0. CEderi. 



In marshes. Banks of Wick River opposite Milton ! Banks 

 of the Burn flowing into Loch Winless, Davidson. 

 0. rostrata. 



Common in marshes. Near Loch Yarrows, and by the Wick 

 River ! By the river near Thurso, F. J. Hanbury ! 

 0. vesicaria. 



In marshes by Loch Winless ; Watten ; Davidson, May, 1887. 

 Phalaris arudinacea. 



Common by river sides. Wick river ! 



Var. picta. Wick river four miles up, near Altinarlich, 

 Hanbury and Marshall 7 

 Anthoxanthum odoratum. Abundant. 



Hierochloe borealis. 



By the Thurso River, E. Dick, 1857 ! Backhouse, 1855 ! In 

 Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc, 1854, Dick gave a full description 

 of the places where he found the plant ; wet banks of 

 Thurso River below the cemetery : several miles up the 

 river, Mr. Lindsay. 



Alopecurus agrestis. 



Cornfield near Wick. 

 A. geniculatus. 



Common in wet places. Field south of Wick, Marshall ! 

 A. pratensis. 



Common in pastures. 

 Phleum pratense. 



Common in pastures. 

 Agrostis canina. 



Common on heaths. Loch Watten, with f. grandiflora / 



H. Bailey of U.S.A. has kindly shown me that our C. OEderi is 

 really the C. flava v. cyperoides, Marsson in Flora Neu- Vorpommern 

 mid Rilgen. He considers our C. flava v. minor Towns, as very near 

 the true C. CEderi; and when at Kew with him I had to admit that it 

 was very near a specimen of " CEderi Retz " in the herbarium which 

 seems clearly the CEderi of Ehrhart, Willdenow, and Schkuhr. — A.B. 



