SOME SCOTTISH IXODID.K (TICKS) 37 



be the part usually selected for attachment. The adult examples 

 were of a pale bluish grey colour, but all have become reddish 

 after being a week or two in spirits. 



Since the above was put in type, I have received a note from 

 Prof. Neumann saying my Cormorant tick appears to him to be a new 

 species, that whicu it comes nearest being fx. eudyptidis, Mask. It 

 will be described soon. 



EDINBURGH. 



ALIEN PLANTS. 

 By JAMES FRASER. 



DURING the year 1906 the following "alien'' or "intro- 

 duced" plants were observed by Mr. James M'Andrew and 

 myself, a few of them not in the immediate vicinity of 

 Edinburgh, whence the change of title from that of my 

 previous lists which appeared in the " Annals of Scot. Nat. 

 Hist." for April 1904, 1905, and 1906. 



In this list the locality is mentioned by name instead of 

 by a number ; and, as before, the relative abundance of each 

 species in its locality is represented by the Greek letters 

 thus : a = once found ; /3 = twice or thrice, but rare ; 7 = 

 neither rare nor frequent ; B = frequent ; e = abundant. 



Under each Natural Order the names of the species are 

 arranged alphabetically, and those not previously found in 

 Britain are distinguished by a star in front of the name. 



RANUNCULACE^E. 



Adonis autumnalis, L. Leith, a. 



Delphinium Ajacis, L. Leith, a. 

 *D. hybridum, Steph. Leith, ft. 

 *D. pubescens, DC, Leith, a. 



Eranthis hyemalis, Salisb. Monimail, Fife, y. 



Ranunculus trilobus, Desf. Leith and Slateford, 8. 



PAPAVERACE.-E. 



Glaucium corniculatum, Curt. var. rubrum. Leith, y. 



FUMARIACE^E. 



Fumaria Borsei, Jord, Leith, ft. 

 F. densiflora, DC. Leith, y. 

 F. officinalis, L. Leith, e. 



