Menziesia Cærulea

Abstract

IN confirmation of the recent occurrence of the above plant on the Sow of Athol, I may say that it was gathered by Miss Crawford in 1877, from whom I received a specimen. Like the cotoneaster on the Orme, which has also been reported extinct, careful and prolonged search has generally been rewarded by finding specimens, although the cotoneaster is now very rare. I might take this opportunity of saying that the rare spider orchis, Ophrys aranifera, which the Rev. M. J. Berkeley has gathered at Southorpe, in Northants, has been destroyed there by the planting of larch. I made a most careful search not only at Southorpe but on the Barnack hills last week, but without seeing a trace of the orchis, although Anemone pulsatilla and Aceras anthropophora are still abundant on the unplanted quarries.