i88 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



preliminary catalogue," " issued in the hope of eliciting information 

 and opinions from British botanists preparatory to publication of a 

 more elaborate work on the subject." Many hundred species are 

 named as presumably non-indigenous in Britain ; and all interested 

 in the British flora will find in it much to suggest inquiry and in- 

 vestigation. Among the species whose names are italicised as 

 " probably natives " appear a good many whose claims to be con- 

 sidered native are not likely to be questioned, in Scotland at least 

 such as Ranunculus repens, Lepidium hirtum, Sisymbrium Thalianum, 

 Arenaria serpyllifolia, etc. ; while Eschsekollzia californica must have 

 been italicised only by inadvertence. The inquiry into the origin 

 of so large a part of the British flora should commend itself to all 

 field students ; and the reinvestigation of local areas in its light 

 would give much information of a kind helpful to a clearer under- 

 standing of man's share in the past history of that flora. The list is 

 published by West, Newman, and Co., at the low price of 4d. 



New Records for Aberdeenshire. In September 1902 I found 

 a number of flowering and fruiting plants of Hypochoeris glabra, L. 

 (smooth cat's-ear), in a dry gravelly field near the Dee, in the parish 

 of Drumoak, in the vice-county South Aberdeen (92), about ten or 

 eleven miles west of Aberdeen. It has been recorded from Ayr, the 

 Clyde Isles, West Perth (as an introduced plant), Forfar, Kincardine 

 (a doubtful record), Elgin, and East Ness. Its small size no doubt 

 leads to its being overlooked ; but it is evidently limited in its dis- 

 tribution in Scotland. There appeared to be no reason to doubt its 

 being native where I found it. 



This month (June 1903) I have found another addition to the 

 known flora of Aberdeenshire in the grass Glyceria plicata, Fries. 

 It grows by a small stream in the parish of Chapel of Garioch, near 

 the eastern side of the base of Bennachie. The boundary between 

 the vice-counties South Aberdeen and North Aberdeen is there quite 

 imaginary, and the grass grows almost on it, though on the whole it 

 is perhaps in the southern division (92). Recorded from only 

 fourteen vice -counties in Scotland out of forty-one, of which the 

 nearest to Aberdeen are East Perth (89) and East Ness (96), the plant 

 probably has escaped detection in others because of its likeness to 

 G.fluitans ; but it is not common in Scotland. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Gall-making 1 Fungi on Roots of Juneus. In the " Scottish 

 Naturalist" in 1884 (pp. 241-243) I described, from examples found 

 by myself near Aberdeen, the small swellings produced on the roots 

 of Juneus bufonius by a fungus shortly before described and figured 

 in the " Botanische Zeitung " (1884, pp. 369-379) under the name 

 Entorrhiza cypericola by C. Weber, who regarded it as specifically 

 identical with a fungus described by Prof. Magnus in 1878 from 

 roots of Cyperus flavescens, and named by him Schinzia cypericola. 

 I referred to information given me by Prof. Balfour that he had 



