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her genital pore during the period occupied by the embryonic 

 changes ; but at other times she apparently lays a few eggs inside a 

 nest and allows them to develop without her presence in the nest at 

 all. This latter method is so startling that I have diffidence in 

 publishing the fact ; but in June 1905 I obtained such nests with 

 eggs in my own house in Edinburgh, and in the spring of 1907 

 Mr. G. A. Whyte obtained strongly confirmatory evidence by finding 

 nests containing several young that had attained their definitive 

 form and were unaccompanied by the female. 



Chelifer rufeolus, Simon. On 28th June I obtained three im- 

 mature individuals of this species the first Scottish examples from 

 a stable loft in Walls Street, Glasgow ; and in the month of August 

 Messrs. Whyte and I discovered it commonly at Balmacara, where 

 we took eighty specimens from a small byre. In the Glasgow stable 

 the moulting nests were found on wood and in a clotted mass of 

 straw ; and in the byre at Balmacara a female carrying her embryonic 

 mass was shaken out of some refuse on 24th August. The synonymy 

 of this species is not yet finally settled, and it is possible that in the 

 future another name will be substituted for that used here. 



Two records made this summer of species already referred to in 

 the July " Annals " deserve notice. Chelifer cancroides (Linn.) has 

 been discovered in a second Glasgow stable ; and Obisium maritimiim, 

 Leach, has been obtained on the shore of Loch Duich, near 

 Balmacara. ROBERT GODFREY. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Juneus baltieus, Willd., away from the Sea-Coast. This 

 plant is given in works on the British flora as found " in sandy 

 places near the sea, or rarely by inland lakes." The only locality 

 under the latter head is, or rather was, the Loch of Drum or Park 

 in the valley of the Dee, about twelve miles inland. It now seems 

 to be extinct at this place ; at least it has not been found there for 

 some years. In August of this year, while residing at Aviemore in 

 East Inverness-shire, I walked from the railway station of Daviot by 

 Moy and Tomatin to Carr Bridge. Between the two last places the 

 road crosses a range of hills ; and although it passes through a 

 ravine known as the Slochd Mor, it reaches a height of 1327 feet 

 above sea-level. Near a milestone marked " Carrbridge 6i " miles, 

 where the altitude must approach 1300 feet, grow several clumps of 

 J. baltieus. Two or three of these are some feet across, and of 

 vigorous growth, so that the conditions appear to be very favourable 

 despite the altitude and the distance from the sea-coast. Even the 

 upper end of the Moray Firth is nearly twenty miles away : and the 

 open sea is considerably more distant. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



