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Allium paradoxum near Edinburgh. It may interest some of 

 your readers to hear that I found Allium paradoxum in flower on 

 27th April within a short distance of Edinburgh, Hooker gives it 

 under " excluded species " reported to have been found at Linlith- 

 gow. The specimens I found were about half a mile from a cottage 

 which was the nearest dwelling-house, and was growing on a rather 

 damp piece of ground. A. F. IMLACH, Edinburgh. 



[This is an introduced plant, and has been found on several 

 occasions in different localities round Edinburgh. It seems now to 

 have become naturalised in woods near Binny Crag, twelve miles west 

 from Edinburgh, where it was discovered about thirty years ago by 

 Mr. A. Craig Christie EDS.] 



Rynehospora fusea, R. and S., in Westerness. I have found 

 the above plant this year in the districts of Ardnamurchan, Sunart, 

 and Moidart, the two former being geographically in Argyleshire, 

 the latter in Inverness-shire : they are all in Watson's V.-C. 97. It 

 grows in great abundance in Kintra Moss and in the "mosses" of 

 Loch Sheil at nearly sea-level ; also, more sparsely, at the side of 

 a few small lochs, the highest being at 180 feet altitude. With one 

 exception, the stations are all in what is practically the Loch Sheil 

 valley, although the Ardnamurchan locality is now separated from 

 the others by a raised beach which has deflected the course of the 

 loch. The brownish-yellow patches of -R. fusca can often be recog- 

 nised at a distance of a hundred yards in late summer ; R. alba 

 also turns that colour, but does not grow in such dense patches. I 

 have looked in other watersheds of this locality for R. fusca, but so 

 far without success. I think, however, it will most probably be 

 found in more localities on this coast in low-lying and wet ground, 

 where R. alba is so plentiful. It has hitherto been known in Scot- 

 land only from Wigtown, V.-C. 74 (Mr. M 'Andrew). SYMERS M. 

 MACVICAR. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural His- 

 tory which have appeared during the Quarter July-September 1895. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FAUNA OF ST KILDA. By J. Steele 

 Elliott. Zoologist (3), vol. xix. pp. 281-286 (August 1895). Two 

 species of mammals and forty-six species of birds are noted. 



