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CATALOGUE OF ECHINODERMS FOUND AT ABERDEEN AND 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD. By J. Simpson. Trans. Aberdeen Working Men' s 

 Nat. Hist, and Sclent. Soc. No. I. (1903), pp. 39-43- Forty-two 

 species recorded. 



BOTANY. 



NOTES ON THE DRAWINGS FOR " ENGLISH BOTANY," by 



F. N. A. Garry, M.A., continued as a supplement to the Journal 

 of Botany, has reached p. 64, Rosa Sabini. 



PLANT DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE IN ITS RELATION TO THE 

 GLACIAL PERIOD. Scot. Geograph. Mag. 1903, pp. 302-311. 



THE ARRAN ISLE PYRUS. By Arthur Bennett. Journ. Bot. 

 1903, p. 167. Calls attention to this form having been named 

 P. Arranensis as a distinct species by Dr. Heglund (K. Sv. Vet. 

 Ak. Hand!. 1901-1902, p. 60), though generally regarded as a 

 hybrid. 



NOTES ON LIMONIUM. By C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 

 1903, pp. 65-74. Under synonymy and distribution in Britain is 

 noted "Z. occidental, O. Kuntze, 74, Wigtown, Galloway! 1823, 

 Goldie, Hb. Kew." (This is Statice Dodartii, "Bab. Man. Brit. Bot.") 

 The Scotch plant is so different from English and Welsh " that it 

 may have to be separated as a variety." 



POTAMOGETON PRjELONGUS, WULF., IN BRITAIN. By Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 1903, pp. 165-166. Discusses its 

 distribution, and mentions several counties in Scotland in which it 

 has been found, up to about 3000 ft. above sea-level. 



POA STRICTA, D. DON, AND POA LEPTOSTACHYA, D. DON. By 



A. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc. Journ. Bot. 1903, pp. 177-179, pi. 452. 

 Describes and figures the specimens in D. Don's herbarium, now 

 in the British Museum, identifying P. stricta with P. pratensis, var. 

 angustifolia, and concluding that P. leptostachya is a depauperate 

 form of something, probably of P. compressa. Both were from 

 Forfarshire. 



ASPLENIUM GERMANICUM, WEISS. By C. E. Salmon. Journ. Bot. 

 1903, pp. 167-168. Notes incidentally Watson's enumeration of 

 four counties in Scotland, and confirms Edinburgh, there being 

 specimens from Blackford Hill in herbaria. 



HOLIDAY AMONGST NORTHERN MOSSES. By C. H. Binstead. 

 Naturalist, 1903, p. 116. Among other species observed in Scot- 

 land is recorded (p. 116) Hypnum turgescens, Schmp. New to 

 British lists. 



NOTES ON FRESHWATER ALGM. By W. West, F.L.S., and 



G. S. West, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot. 1903, pp. 74-82. Among 

 many from Wales, etc., occur descriptions of Chlorobotrys regular is 



