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The Scottish Naturalist. 



Festuca sciuroides. 



In sandy places by the sides of streams, &c. Dunbeath ! 

 F. ovina. 



Common. Caithness, H. C. Watson. Loch Durran, Marshall ! 

 Var. capillata Hackel. 

 South bank of Wick River ! 

 F. rubra. 



Common. Near Westerseat ! Wick River ! Scouthal ! Watten ! 

 Var. littoralis. 



Near Loch Wester, Marshall \ 



„ arenaria. 



Sandy links. Ackergill, &c. Sinclair Bay ! 

 Sub-var. grandiflora Hackel. Wick River, near the mouth ! 

 „ juncea Hackel. Freswick. 

 F. duriuscula. 



Frequent. 



F. elatior. 



Frequent in wet places. 

 Var. pseudololiacea Hackel. 



Banks of Wick River. Fields about Thurso, F. J. Han- 

 bury ! 



F. arundinacea, f. strictior Hackel. 



Seacoast at Freswick ! 

 Bromus asper. 



On stony banks. Forss Water ! Thurso River ; Dunbeath. 

 B. sterilis. 



In waste places. Braemore ; Dunbeath Village. 



B. mollis. 



Common. A small form on Dunnet Links. 



Brachypodium sylvaticum. 



Banks of 1 nurso River above Cemetery ; Wick River, at 

 Gilloch ; Acharole ; Strath ; Lybster ; Forss ; Dunbeath. 



Lolium perenne. 



Common in fields. Caithness, H. C. Watson. 



f Var. italicum. 



Hayfields. 



Agropyrum repens. 



Common by roadsides. Seaside near Wick, Davidson ! 



Var. barbatum. On sandy soil, by hedgesides between 



