CURRENT LITERATURE 125 



FUNGI FROM PERTHSHIRE. Exhibited (Proc. P.S.N.S., 1909, 

 lix.). 



CH^ROPHYLLUM AUREUM, L., FROM BANK OF TEITH, CALLANDEK, 

 in 1907. Exhibited by James Eraser (Proc. fiot. Sac. Ed., 1910, 

 xxxi.). 



NOTES ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF UTRICULARIA. By Arthur 

 Bennett (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed., 1910, \.\iv. 59-63). 



THE GENUS CAREX IN BRITAIN. By Arthur Bennett (Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Ed., xxiv. 77-84). Critical remarks on many of the 

 species and varieties. 



CAREX AQUATILIS, WAHLB., AND ITS SCOTTISH FORMS. By 

 Arthur Bennett (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed., xxiv. 86-90). A very full 

 account. 



SOME FURTHER MOSSES AND HEPATICS FROM THE ISLE OF MAY. 

 By William Evans, F.R.S.E. (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed., ;xiv. 91-93). 

 Adds 1 7 Mosses and 2 Hepatics. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEPATIC/E IN SCOTLAND. By Symers 

 M. Macvicar (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed., xxv. 1-336). 



SCOTTISH PEAT-MOSSES. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE 

 OF THE LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION AND CLIMATE OF NORTH- 

 WESTERN EUROPE. By G. Samuelson (Bull. Geol. Instit. of Upsala, 



1910, x. 197-260, i map). 



NEW LICHENS. By A. Lorrain Smith (Journ. Bot., 1911, 4 I -44)- 

 Descriptions of several species and varieties new to science, of which 

 one, named Arthopyrenia Cronibiei, sp.n., was found by J. M. 

 Crombie on bark by the Garry at Blair Atholl, Perthshire (V.C. 89). 



FOUR SPECIES OF GEASTER COLLECTED IN EAST LOTHIAN IN 

 OCTOBER 1909. Exhibited by Wm. Evans (Proc. Bot. Soc. Ed., 

 1909, xxiii.). 



Two NEW SPECIES OF MYCETOZOA. By G. Lister (Journ. Bot., 



1911, 61-62). Licea castanea, n.sp., on bark of Pyrus Aucuparia 

 and moss on the bark, Lesmoir, Aberdeenshire (V.C. 93), found by 

 Rev. W. Cran described. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE, translated into English. . . . 

 Vol. IV. Historia Animalium. By D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. 

 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.) 



Professor D'Arcy Thompson's translation of Aristotle's History 

 of Animals will be welcomed by all who know his valuable " Glossary 

 of Greek Bird Names," published in 1895. Naturalists and classical 

 scholars alike are in debt to the Professor for his "Glossary": the 

 present work will prove of special value to those who are interested 



