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E. palustre. 



Beside a rivulet south from Wick, Marshall ! 



f. subnudum. 



Dunnet and Keiss Links, F J. Hanbury \ 



E. limosum. 



On muddy shores of lochs, and in peat-bogs. Wick River; 

 Loch Winless ; Bower. 



Chara fragilis. 



In old disused quarries. Yarrows Loch ! Ditches near Loch 

 Winless, F J. Hanbury ! Dunnet ; Wick ; Thrumster ; 

 Watten. Oldhall. 

 Var. barbata. Loch Winless. 

 C. vulgaris. 



"Caithness, 1852, P. Gray," Groves. Yarrows Loch! Ditch 

 at Gilloch ! 



Var. melanopyrena. 



Ben Dorrery, Davidson and Grant ! 



„ longibracteata. 



Ditch between Tayfield and Gilloch. Pools at Thurdis- 

 toft. Canisbay ; Yarehouse. 



C. aspera. 



Lochs Winless and Wester ! Loch Watten, near Watten 

 Lodge. Pool near Georgemas Junction. 



C. contraria. 



Wester Loch ! Loch Winless, near outlet. 



Tolypella gloraerata. 



A small form occurs in Wester Loch ! 



Nitella opaca. 



Yarehouse Loch ! Wick River ! Yarrows Loch ! Thurso 

 River ! Pools at Bilbster, 



Reported Occurrence of Gentiana Pneumonanthe L. in 



Scotland. — A fellow-traveller from London to Perth, last June, a graduate 

 of Christ Church, Oxford, whose name did not transpire, informed me that he 

 had seen this plant growing, the previous September, on a moor near Aldourie 

 Castle, Inverness-shire. He described it as much more stunted than on the 



