1 88 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Sadler. The species is not mentioned in either edition of Balfour 

 and Sadler's " Flora of Edinburgh," nor, of course, in Greville's 

 " Flora Edinensis." There can be no doubt about the identification, 

 which has been verified by Dr. Braithwaite. WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Orbilia seotiea, Massee (in " Grevillea " for June 1894, p. 99).- 

 " Gregarious, at first subglobose and closed, then expanding and 

 becoming almost plane, with a slight central depression, margin 

 entire, glabrous, thin, almost translucent when moist, irregularly con- 

 tracted when dry, deep rose red, sessile, and attached by a central 

 point, up to f mm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, cells irregu- 

 larly polygonal, 5-7 // diameter ; hypothecium tinged red ; asci clavate, 

 apex rounded, base slender and usually crooked, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate above, i -seriate below, hyaline, continuous, 

 elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, 4 by T /A ; paraphyses about i // thick, 

 tips subglobose. 



On rotten wood, Aboyne, N.B. 



The type specimen is in Herb. Berk., Kew, under the name of 

 Peziza vinosa ( = Calloria vinosa), from which it differs in the very 

 much smaller, differently shaped spores, although superficially the 

 two species closely resemble each other." 



First Records of Scottish Flowering Plants. In Mr. W. A. 



Clarke's "First Records " (see p. 190), the following are mentioned 

 from Scotland : 



Melampyrum sylvaticum, L., 1777. "In woods, but not com- 

 mon," Lightf. " Fl. Scot.," 325. "On the road going from Tay- 

 mouth to the hermitage, 1775."- Lightf. Herb. 



Utricularia Bremii, Heer., 1876. "Moss of Inshoch, Nairnshire, 

 Mr. Jas. B. Brichan, i6th August i833."--"Journ. Bot," 1876, 142. 



Pinguicula alpina, L., 1832. "Picked by the Rev. George 

 Gordon in June 1831 in the bogs of Auchterflow and Shannon, 

 Ross-shire. . . . There are two specimens in the herbarium of Sir 

 J. E. Smith, sent to him by Mr. James Mackay, in September 1794, 

 from the island of Skye." " E. B. Suppl.," 2747. 



Stachys ambigua, Sm., 1809. Found "by Mr. W. Borrer and 

 Mr. W. J. Hooker near Loch Carron and in Glen Ely in the North 

 of Scotland in September 1808." "E. B.," 2089. 



Lamium intermedium, Fr., 1837. Distinguished by Dr. N. 

 Tyacke, near Edinburgh, in 1836, in first Report of Bot. Soc. Edinb. 



Ajuga pyramidalis, L., 1777. "I am assured by the Rev. Dr. 

 Burgess of Kirkmichael that it is a native of Scotland, but I have 

 not yet learned the particular place of its growth."- Lightf, " Fl. 

 Scot.," 303. 



