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calcarea dont elle differe par son thalle jauni interieurement, et par ses 

 spores ("Bulletin de la Societe Botan. de France," vi. 1906, p. 515). 



Hieraeium nigreseens, Willd., var. eommutatum, Lindeb., etc., 

 on Ben Heasgarnieh, Mid Perth. I gathered the hawkweed which 

 the Rev. W. R. Linton thinks is probably the above variety, on the 

 eastern slopes of Ben Heasgarnieh in August last, where 1 also 

 found H. cerintkeforme, Backh. ; H. gracilentum, Backh. ; H. 

 Soinmerfeltii, Lindeb. ; and H. sarcophyllum, var. expallidiforme, 

 Uahlst., as well as Salix Arbiiscula and S. Myrsinites. I also 

 gathered Carex canescens, *var. fallax, F. Kurs. ; C. alpina at nearly 

 3000 feet, C. atrofusca in quantity and good condition, and C. 

 telhilata, Good, var. grypus. G. C. DRUCE. 



Altitudinal Range of Utrieularia minor. On aoth August 

 1905 I found this plant in a wet spot at about 2250 ft. above sea- 

 level on the south side of the Tarmachans, near Killin, Perthshire. 

 The moss Hypnum trifarium was growing beside it. WILLIAM 

 EVANS. 



[This is, so far as I am aware, a very considerable extension of 

 the altitudinal range of U. minor for Scotland, the highest previous 

 record that I have met with being 1500 ft., in pools north-west of 

 Loch Ericht, with U. intermedia, found by H. N. Dixon in 1883, 

 see " Journ. Bot," 1894, p. 88. J. W. H. T.] 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

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ZOOLOGY. 



WINTER WHITENING IN A BROWN HARE. R. L. The Field, 

 2nd February 1907, p. 183. This note refers to a specimen 

 obtained at Carradale, Argyllshire, in which the head exhibits light 

 areas, some almost pure white and others a mixture of white and 

 brown hairs, forming a series of symmetrically arranged patches on 

 both sides. The specimen is now in the Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington. 



THE OCCURRENCE OF Risso's DOLPHIN, GRAMPUS GRISEUS, Cuv., 

 IN THE FORTH. By James Eggleton. Tratis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Glasgow, vol. vii. (N.S.), part iii. pp. 253-257 (February 1907). 

 This paper refers principally to a specimen captured near the 

 Inchbrake Light, off Kincardine, on i5th October 1904. A brief 

 history of this mammal as a British species is also given. 



