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The Scottish Naturalist. 



A. alba. 



Dunnet Head. 

 Var. maritima Mey. 



Sandy places by the sea ; Wick, Davidson / 

 ., gigantea Koch. 



Burnside, Watten ! 

 ,, coarctata Hoffm. 



Riverside, Thurso ! 

 „ patula Gaud. 

 Loch Watten ! 

 A. vulgaris. 



In fields and wet places. 

 Var. pumila. 



On gravelly shores of lochs. 

 Deyeuxia strigosa. 



In marshy ground. Durran ! Watten Loch, Hanbury and 

 Grant ! 



Ammophila arundinacea. 



Common on sandhills by the sea. Reay Links, F.J. Hanbury! 

 Deschampsia csespitosa. 



Abundant in ditches and on banks. Caithness, H. C. Watson. 

 By a rivulet south of Wick, Marshall ! 

 Var. alpina Gaud. Watten ! Castletown ! 

 D. discolor (Aira uliginosa). 



Sides of Loch Watten, near Watten Lodge. 

 D. flexuosa. 



Common on moors and dry pastures. 

 Aira caryophyllea. 



Tn meadows. On peaty soil throughout the country, F. J 

 Hanbury. Near Loch Winless, F. /. Hanbury. 

 A. prsecox. 



In pastures. 

 Holcus mollis. 



Rather local. 

 H. lanatus. 



Abundant. 

 Avena pubescens. 



In pastures, local. Loch Durran, Marshall ! 

 Arrhenatherum avenaceum, 



Roadsides. 



