62 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY OF THE RIVER-BASINS FORTH AND 

 TWEED IN SCOTLAND. By James W. H. Trail, M.U., F.R.S. 

 Trans. B. S. Ed., xxii. part iii. pp. 277-308, 1904 (read 12/2/03). 

 An abstract of the records of distribution, so far as known to the 

 author up to end of 1902, of plants, natives and aliens, through 

 the counties included in these river-basins. 



NOTES ON LIMONIUM, II. L. NEUMANI ( = L. HUMILE x 

 VULGARE). By C. E. Salmon. Journ. Bot., 1904, pp. 361-363. 

 This article discusses the distribution in Britain of the hybrid (first 

 detected as British in Aug. 1901, in West Sussex), and notes it 

 from 73, Kirkcudbright and, ? 74, Wigtown, as shown by specimens 

 in Edinburgh herbarium. 



VERONICA BUXBAUMII AS A BRITISH COLONIST. By Frederic 

 N. Williams, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1904, pp. 253-254. Points out 

 that the British plant must bear the above name, and is distinct 

 from V. filiforinis, Smith ( V. Tournefortii, Gmel., = V. persica, 

 Poir.), and that it was first found in Britain, in Berkshire, in 1825, 

 but first recorded as British in Johnston's Flora of Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed, in 1829. 



COWTHORPE OAK. By John Clayton. Trans. B. S. Ed., xxii. 

 part iii. pp. 396-414, plates 1-7, 1904 (read 12/3/03). Discusses 

 the dimensions of the largest trees (Oak, Chestnuts, and Yew) in 

 England, and their probable ages, and concludes that age is usually 

 much over-estimated. 



CAREX DIVISA, HUDSON, AS A SCOTTISH PLANT. By Alex. 

 Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S. Trans. B. S. Ed., xxii. part iii. pp. 309- 

 311, 1904 (read 12/3/03). 



ON THE GENUS POLYSTICHUM, ROTH. (ASPIDIUM, SWARTZ, 

 IN PART), WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO P. ANGULARE, PRESL., 

 AND TO ITS DISTRIBUTION IN SCOTLAND. By Alex. Somerville, 

 B.Sc., F.L.S. Trans. B. S. Edin. xxii. part iii. pp. 312-317, 

 1902. 



REVISED NOTE ON LAMINARIA. By Thomas Berwick. Trans. 

 B. S. Ed. xxii. part iii. pp. 395-396, 1904 (read 9/7/03). States 

 methods of demonstrating presence of chlorophyll in the genus. 



NOTES ON THE DRAWINGS FOR " ENGLISH BOTANY." By F. N. 

 A. Garry, M.A. Issued as a Supplement to Journ. Bot., pp. 241- 

 247, from Spartina stricta, Roth., concluded with Chara fragifera, 

 Durieu, and an index to the genera. 



REPORT OF THE 1902 EXCURSION OF THE SCOTTISH ALPINE 

 CLUB TO TYNDRUM. By Alexander Cowan, Esq. Trans. B. S. Ed., 

 xxii. part iii. pp. 317-318. 



