70 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



ROS.E HYBRIDS. By Frangois Crepin. Bulletin de la Societc 

 Roy ale de Botanique de Belgique, xxxiii. part i. pp. 7-153. This is a 

 very valuable monograph on the hybrid roses of Europe by the lead- 

 ing authority on the genus at present. The following are noticed 

 from Scotland : R. pimpinelli folia x tomentosa. R. pimpinellifolia x 

 mollis is regarded as the origin of a rose gathered in 1888 on sand- 

 hills near Betty Hill of Farr, in Sutherlandshire, by Mr. J. Cosmo 

 Melvill, and distributed under the name R. Sabini. R. pimpinelli- 

 folia x canina (dumetoriini) is assigned as the probable parentage of 

 examples (under R. hibernica in the herbarium of Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden) gathered by Gorrie in 1866 between Melvill Hall and 

 Bellyford Burn. 



SCOTTISH UTRICULARIAS. By Rev. E. F. Linton. Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edin., xx. part i. pp. 110-112. This calls attention to probable 

 occurrence in Scotland of U. Bremii, Heer. (Loch of Spynie and 

 Moss of Inshoch, '" near Glen Luce," Culdoch Moor, Kirkcudbright, 

 and Loch Feoir, Assynt), and U. neglecta, Lehm. (Gordon Moss, 

 Rannoch Muir, Argyle, and Long Moss in Selkirkshire). 



CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA, BERNH., IN STIRLINGSHIRE. By A. 

 Somerville. Journ. Bot., Oct. 1894. On Ben Lomond. 



BRITISH ALG^E. In the seventh fasciculus (25 species) of his 

 Algce Britannicce rariores exsiccatcz Mr. E. M. Holmes includes the 

 following from Scottish localities : Capsosiphon aureolns, Gobi, found 

 at Sea Mill, Ayrshire, in September 1894, by Mr. D. A. Boyd ; 

 Delcsseria angustissima, Griff., at Cromarty, in April, by Mrs. M. 

 Farquharson ; Ectocarpus distortus, Harv., at Cumbrae, in August 

 1891, by Mr. E. A. Batters; E. ovatits, Kjellm., E. tomentosoides, 

 Farlow, var. punctiformis, Batt, Haplospora globosa, Kjellm., and 

 Phyllophora Traillii, Holm, and Batt., all four at Cumbrae, in April 

 1894, by Mr. Holmes; Urospora collabens, Holm, and Batt., at 

 Cumbroe, in May 1894, by Mr. D. Robertson; and Vaucheria coron- 

 ata, Nordst, at Arbroath, in May 1894, by Mr. Jack. 



HALICYSTIS OVALIS. Journ. Bot., Nov. Found two years ago 

 by Mr. G. Murray and Dr. Schmitz in the Clyde Area, has been 

 found at Lamlash, Arran, in seven fathoms water, by Mr. David 

 Robertson. 



ON ACROSIPHONIA TRAILII, A NEW BRITISH ALGA. By Edward 

 A. L. Batters, B.A., LL.B. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part i. pp. 

 213-214, Plate 2, Figs. 1-7. Found at Joppa, near Edinburgh, by 

 Mr. G. W. Traill, after whom it is named. 



OBITUARY NOTICE OF CHARLES JENNER. By Robert Lindsay. 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part i. pp. 23-29. An appreciative 

 account of a most estimable man, with strong botanical tastes, very 

 characteristically shown in his fine garden at Portobello. 



