68 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



BOTANY. 



LA RECAPITULATION ET L'INNOVATION EN EMBRYOLOGIE VEGE- 

 TALE. By Jean Massart. Bull. Soc. Belg. Bot., xxxi. part i. pp. 

 150-247, Plates 1-4, and 54 woodcuts. Though not on the botany 

 of Scotland, this paper contains much information regarding the life- 

 histories and development of numerous plants that form part of the 

 flora of Scotland. 



REGULAR PELORIA OF PERIANTH OF ORCHIS MACULATA (sexual 

 organs normal). Found at Alness, Caithness-shire, by Miss Munro. 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part i. p. 83. 



NOTES FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH RE- 

 PORTS ON TEMPERATURE AND VEGETATION DURING JULY 1893 TO 

 JUNE 1894. By Robert Lindsay. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part 



i- PP- 7-i5> 40-41, 9-94, 171-173. i79- l82 > 214-217, 222-224, 

 230-232, 264-266. An enumeration of the species in flower in the 

 rock-garden, and a statement of meteorological observations made in 

 the garden. 



- THE PLANTS IN THE PALM HOUSE AND TEMPERATE HOUSE. 

 By R. L. Harrow (I.e. pp. 17-19, 42-44, 95-97, 174-175. 182-183, 

 218-220, 225-226, 233-235, 267-269). 



- ON RlBES SUBVESTITUM, HOOKER AND ARNOTT. By 



A. D. Richardson (I.e. pp. 16-17). 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. Compiled by 

 W. A. Clarke, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., Oct.- Nov. Includes from 

 Asarum to Goodyera. See p. 59 of this journal. 



NOTES ON BRITISH PLANTS. By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. Journ. 

 Bot., Dec. Some introductory remarks call attention to how much 

 remains to be done in British botany, and to the aid to be gained 

 from observation of the relation of plants to their environments. 

 Mr. Bennett then discusses the genus Statice in the British flora. 

 The paper is a very valuable one. 



RECORDS OF SCOTTISH PLANTS FOR 1892. By Arthur Bennett. 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., xx. part i. pp. 35-37. This is a brief notice 

 of some of the more interesting records, all having been already 

 included in our pages (1893, pp. 95-101). 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF STIRLINGSHIRE [FOURTH PAPER]. By 

 Colonel Stirling of Gargunnock and Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 

 Trans. Stirling Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc., 1893-94, pp. 88-92. 

 Gives the results of the excursions made during the last season, and 

 brings the total number of species recorded for the county up to 

 773- 



