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from March 1905 onwards, 16 pages each month. Under each 

 species it enumerates the additions to vice-county records since 

 1883, and will of course be indispensable to all students of British 

 plant-distribution. 



SILENE DUBIA, HERBiCH, IN BRITAIN. By C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. 

 (J. Bot., 1905, pp. 127-128). Calls attention to this as the true 

 name of a form included in British floras under S. nutans. 



GERMAN SIDE-LIGHTS ON SOME BRITISH RUBI. By Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. (J. Bot., 1905, pp. 73-78). A review of 

 Dr. W. O. Focke's monograph of Rubi in Ascherson and Graebner's 

 Synopsis der mittel-europaeischen Flora, with special reference to 

 British forms. 



LIST OF " INTRODUCED " OR " ALIEN " PLANTS GATHERED BY 

 MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EDIN- 

 BURGH DURING 1903 AND 1904. By James Eraser and James 

 M 'Andrew (Tr. Ed. F. N. and M. Soc., 1904). 



SOME FORFARSHIRE PLANTS. By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., 

 F.L.S., and W. A. Shoolbred, F.L.S. (/. Bot., 1905, pp. 114-116).- 

 Contains a few new county records of obscure forms and hybrids. 



THE FLORA OF BUCHAN ITS DISTRIBUTION, ORIGIN, AND 

 RELATIONS TO MAN. By James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S. 

 (Tr. Buchan Field Club, 1904-5, pp. 2-56). Analyses the flora, 

 and gives additions to previous lists. 



LEGENDARY PLANT-LORE. By A. M'D. Reid, M.A. (Tr. Buchan 

 Field Club, 1904-5, pp. 106-128). Does not contain any local 

 matter. 



NOTES ON THE RARER WOODLAND PLANTS OF SCOTLAND. 

 By D. S. Fish (Tr. Ed. F. N. and M. Soc., 1904). 



NOTES ON MOSSES FROM WEST KILBRIDE, AYRSHIRE. By 

 D. A. Boyd (Tr. Ed. F. N. and M. Soc., 1904, pp. 94-97). Tortula 

 ruraliformis and Brachytherium albicans are noticed. 



NEW AND RARE BRITISH HEPATIC/E. By Symers M. Macvicar 

 (J. Bot., 1905, pp. 117-120). Enumerates, with critical notes and 

 localities, nine species or varieties, all of which have recently been 

 detected in Scotland. 



HEPATICS OF CAITHNESS. By Rev. D. Lillie, B.D. (J. Bot., 

 1905, pp. 124-127). A list, with localities, of all species collected 

 in the county by the author. 



LlFE-HlSTORY OF GL^EOCAPSA CREPIDINUM. By G. T. West 



(Tr. Ed. F. N. and M. Soc., 1904, pp. 130-133). 



