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). 



