CURRENT LITERATURE 255 



NEPA CINEREA, L., IN SCOTLAND. William Evans. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. (2), vol. xi. p. 1 88 (August 1900). Several records are given 

 for this species. 



SOME NOTES ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF THE GENUS NORELLIA. 

 By Col. J. W. Yerbury, late R.E., F.Z.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. 

 xi. pp. 199-202 (September 1900). Scottish specimens are referred 

 to in this paper. 



BRITISH AMPHIPODA. IV. FAMILIES STEGOCEPHALID/E TO (Eoi- 

 CERID^: (part). By Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., etc. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. (7), vol. vi. pp. 32-51, plate iii. (July 1900). Numerous 

 Scottish localities are given for the various species. 



BOTANY. 



PLANT NOTES FROM SUTHERLAND AND CANTIRE. By C. E. 

 Salmon. Journ. Bot., 1900, pp. 299-303. Contains a good many 

 new records for the districts of East Sutherland, West Sutherland, and 

 Cantire. 



DRABA MURALIS IN EDINBURGHSHIRE. By A. Craig Christie. 

 Journ. Bot., 1900, p. 279. Notes its occurrence in Glen Farg and 

 south of Edinburgh. 



THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES : 

 REPORT FOR 1898. By James Groves, F.L.S. Mr. W. H. Beeby 

 records that Cerastium arcticum, var. Edmondstonii, Beeby, brought 

 from Unst in 1886, and grown, in Surrey, in soil from Unst, 

 retained the dark purplish-copper foliage, but that seeds and plants 

 brought from Unst in 1897 and 1898, and grown in a mixture of 

 Surrey soils, had become green, thus losing the distinctive mark of 

 the variety. 



NEW AND RARE MOSSES FROM BEN LAWERS. By H. N. 

 Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. JouT-n. Bot., 1900, pp. 330-335. Treats of 

 occurrence and synonymy of several species. 



THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACE/E (AFTER WARNSTORF). By E. 

 Charles Horrell, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1900, pp. 252-258, 303-315, 

 338-353. Continues the enumeration, with descriptions of the 

 species and varieties, and gives localities in Britain for each. 



PELLIA NEESIANA, LIMPR., IN BRITAIN. By Symers M. 

 Macvicar. Journ. Bot., 1900, pp. 275-276. Records the finding 

 of this hepatic from three localities in Moidart, West Inverness ; and 

 gives the characters that distinguish it from the previously known 

 British species. 



NOTES ON FRESHWATER ALG/E, II. By W. West, F.L.S., and 

 G. S. West, B.A. Journ. Bot., 1900, pp. 289-299, pi. 412. Is an 

 important paper on synonymy, with descriptions and figures of some 

 new forms. 



