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Edin., xvii. No. 6. (October 1909), pp. 300-311. Records thirteen 

 species, several of them new to the Forth, obtained at Dunbar and 

 Burntisland in 1908. 



BOTANY. 



SUPPLEMENTARY RECORDS OF BRITISH RUBI. By Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers (Journ. Bot., 1909, 340-346), completes lists begun in the 

 previous month. 



THE BRITISH ROSES (EXCLUDING EU-CANINA-:). By Major A. H. 

 Wolley-Dod (Journ. Bot., 1910, Appendix, pp. 1-32). 



BRITISH SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF THYMUS. By Rev. E. F. 

 Linton (Journ. Bot., 1909, 346-348). A few additions to records 

 from Scotland ; a form new to Britain, T. Lovyanus Opiz, from 

 Ireland, is described. 



BRITISH OAKS. By C. E. Moss {Journ. Bot., 1910, 1-8, 33-39, 

 pi. 502). Q. Robur has reflexed auricles at base of leaf-blade and 

 has not branched hairs ; Q. sessiliflora has branched hairs on lower 

 surface of leaves but has no auricles ; the hybrid Robur x 

 sessiliflora has both auricles and branched hairs. (W. Perth, 

 hb. B. M. and Dumbarton, hb. K.) 



NEW RECORDS IN SCOTTISH BRYOPHYTA. By Eleonora 

 Armitage (Journ. Bot., 1910, 57-58). Seven mosses and four liver- 

 worts from Elginshire (95), two mosses from Easterness (96), and 

 one moss from Knockdolian Hills in Ayrshire (75). 



DICRANUM BERGERI, BLAND., IN CAITHNESS. By Cecil B. 

 Crampton (Journ. Bot., 1910, 23). New to Scotland ; forms large 

 fertile cushions near the Dubh Lochans on Kilimster Moss. 



SOME HIGHLAND FUNGI. By Harold J. Wheldon (Journ. Bot., 

 1909, 348-349). From Speyside, twenty-eight species named (with 

 altitudes in most cases) of which seven seem to be new to Speyside 

 records. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF DUMFRIESSHIRE FUNGI. By 

 A. Lorrain-Smith (Trans, and Journ. of Proc. Dumfr. and Gall. N. 

 H. and Anti. Soc., 1909, xx. pp. 170-177). 



NOTE SUR UNE NOUVELLE ESPECE DE PSEUDOPHACIDIUM. By 

 E. Boudier (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc., Season 1908, p. 81, i pi.). 

 P. Smithianum, on Empetrum nigrum in various parts of Scotland. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF KENT. By Norman F. Ticehurst, 

 M.A., F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., etc. With Twenty-four Plates and a Map. 

 London: Witherby & Co., 1909. 2is. net. 



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