122 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Bernacle goose (Bernicla leucopsis\ having obtained two examples off 

 a specimen of that bird shot at Cobbinshaw Reservoir, Midlothian, 

 on gth October 1906, and one from a specimen killed at Barra, 

 Outer Hebrides, in January 1910. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Priapulus eaudatus, Lam., on the Fife Coast. On 5th March 

 (1910) I dug a small example of this curious Gephyrean out of the 

 mud between tide-marks in Dalgetty Bay, west of Aberdour, Fife. 

 Its length, with the "introvert" extended, was about 2^ inches. 

 The previous records from the Firth of Forth are : two found at 

 Leith by Dr. Coldstream prior to 1828 (Fleming's " British Animals," 

 p. 492), one near Granton by Sir John Dalyell ("Powers of the 

 Creator," vol. ii. p. 253), and some taken by Dr. Thomas Scott 

 from stomachs of fishes caught in the Forth (8th Report, 1889, 

 Fish. Bd. Scot., pt. iii. p. 332). WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Asearis oseulata, Rud., from a Common Seal killed in the 

 Inner Hebrides. In August 1908 I obtained about a dozen 

 specimens of this large Nematode from the nasal cavity of a 

 Common Seal (Phoca vitulina) shot at Coll, Inner Hebrides, that 

 month. Some of the worms were shown to Mr. A. E. Shipley, who 

 confirmed the identification. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Saxifraga esespitosa, L. In my Notes on this plant 1 I 

 omitted to refer to Dr. Craig's notice in the Edin. Bot. Soc. 

 Trans, xvii. (1889) pp. 69-72. From his account there appears to 

 be some discrepancy as to the date of the gathering of Dr. M. 

 Barry's specimens. On the label accompanying my specimens it is 

 " August 6 (not 3 as printed), 1830. This is one of Barry's original 

 specimens, see Syme, E.B." F. M. Webb, in lift. Dr. Craig, speak- 

 ing of Mr. W. M'Nab's gathering on Beinn A'Bhuird in August 1836, 

 says: "The following year (1831) Prof. Graham, Mr. W. M'Nab, 

 Dr. M. Barry and others, made a special search on Beinn A'Bhuird, 

 but failed to find it. After the party returned, Mr. M'Nab and Dr. 

 Barry returned and again searched the mountain, but without 

 success. Dr. Barry remained behind, and accompanied by Mr. J. 

 Mackenzie, gardener at Invercauld, as his guide, examined the rocks 

 on Ben Avon facing Beinn A'Bhuird, and they were successful. The 

 first specimen was picked by Mr. Mackenzie, so that he, and not 

 Dr. Barry, was the real discoverer of the Ben Avon station. Dr. 

 Barry visited this station again in 1832, and picked the plant 

 sparingly," so it would seem that Mr. Watson's specimens were 



1 "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 174, 1909. 



