Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

132 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
pi. iv. Critical notes on two species, one of which (S. diplochai'tos,
Otto) was obtained at the Millport Marine Station.
BOTANY.
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF WEST INVERNESS. By Symers M.
M' Vicar. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1899, pp. 173-185. Valuable
as discussing characteristics of the flora, distribution, shore-zones
round lochs, altitudes, etc.
SOME NOTES ON ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA, LINN., WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO A NEW STATION IN THE LlDDESDALE DISTRICT OF
ROXBURGHSHIRE. By Symington Grieve. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.,
\\i. pp. 144-150, read January 1899.
NOTE ON THE DISCOVERY OF GKNTIANA NIVALIS, LINN., IN
SUTHERLANDSHIRE. By John Lowe, M.D., F.R.S.E. Trans. Bot.
Soc. Edin., 1899, xxi. p. 217. In considerable quantity on rocks
down to sea-level near Ardvreck Castle, Assynt.
NOTE ON ALISMA. By Arthur Bennett. Journ. Bot., 1900,
p. 24. Refers in part to a variety of A. Plantago collected in water
several feet deep at King's Myre, Perthshire, igth August 1885,
and sent by Dr. F. B. White, labelled " var. gniniinifohum, Wahlenb."
This determination Mr. Bennett confirms.
ON THE FERNS, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF RERRICK. By Rev.
G. M'Connachie. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1899, xxi. pp. 168-173.
Records the more interesting species in each of several localities in
Kirkcudbrightshire.
SPHAGNUM MEDIUM, LIMPR., IN BRITAIN. By Harold W.
Monington, F.L.S. Jonni. Bot., 1900, pp. 1-3, pi. 405. --The
species is described and figured and among the British localities
;
are Ben More (Dixon and Binstead, 1897) and Chapelton Moss,
Hamilton (J. Murray, 1899), both Scotch.
ON ABNORMAL CONJUGATION ix SPIROGVRA. By R. A.
Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1899, xxi. pp. 185-
191,2 folding plates.
A careful contribution to the subject.
NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF ASCOIDEA RUBESCENS, BREF., IN
SCOTLAND. By James A. Terras, B.Sc. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.,
1899, xxi. pp. 217-218.
EXHIBITED AT MEETING OF i ITH MAY 1899 OF BOTANICAL
SOCIETY, EDINBURGH. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xxi. p. 219. Several
Hymcnomycctes from the West of Scotland, and specimens of Silver
Fir attacked by Sirex gigas and S. fitniicus.
OBITUARY NOTICES of the following are contained in Trans. Bot.
Soc. Edin., 1899, xxi. Malcolm Dunn (pp. 220-222), Dr. George C.
Wallich (pp. 222-224), and Dr. James E. T. Aitchison (pp. 224-
229).