CURRENT LITERATURE 125 



Bot., 1907, pp. 99-108), being an explanatory commentary on 

 the more important alterations in nomenclature made in the List by 

 these authors, just published by the Trustees of the British 

 Museum. 



HIERACIUM NOTES. By Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A. (Journ. Bot., 

 1907, pp. 108-112). Enumerates and describes Scandinavian 

 forms recently detected in Britain. Among these is H. pinnatifidum, 

 Lonnr., from 89 and 96. 



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

 1 907, pp. 24-25). Treats of L. binervosinn ( = L. occidentale Statice 

 Dodartii, Bab.), and records var. hit mile from near Cramond (83, 

 Midlothian) in 1842, as well as from Mull of Galloway. 



NEW AND RARE BRITISH HEPATIC^. By Symers M. Macvicar 

 (Journ, Bot., 1907, pp. 63-66). Of references to Scottish plants 

 are a disentangling of Lophozia badensis, (Gottsche) Schiffn., irom 

 L. turbinata (Raddi), (with records for L. badensis from counties 

 Ayr, Edinburgh, Fife, and East Ross), and a record of Prionolobus 

 striatulus, (C. Jens.) Schiffner, from Lousie-wood La\v, in Lanark, 

 new to Scotland. 



ASPICILIA LlLLIEf, N.SP., AND RHIZOCARPON LOTUM, STITZ., IN 



SCOTLAND. By M. PJouly de Lesdain (Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1906, 

 pp. 515-517). Found by Rev. D. Lillie in Caithness, in 1905. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



OOTHECA WOLLEYANA; AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE 

 COLLECTION OF BIRDS' EGGS FORMED BY THE LATE JOHN WOLLEY, 

 M.A., F.Z.S. Edited by Alfred Newton. Part IV. Alcse-Anseres : 

 with Supplement and Appendix. London : R. H. Porter. Price 

 253. net. 



We cordially congratulate Prof. Newton on the completion of 

 his great tribute to the memory of the late John Woliey. The 

 collection which it describes so well not only includes the historical 

 one formed by Mr. Woliey, but also that amassed with great and 

 unremitting care during the past sixty years or more by Prof. Newton 

 himself. Some idea of the extent of these combined cabinets may 

 be gathered from the fact that their history and description occupies 

 no less than 1289 pages of letterpress and forms two handsome 

 volumes. This magnificent collection, we are glad to learn, has 

 been presented by Prof. Newton to the Cambridge University, in 

 whose Museum of Zoology it finds a most appropriate resting-place. 

 Like its predecessors, this final Part deals with a number of species 



