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Scotch botanists should look for this fakaftis. It may be said to 

 resemble nitens and heterophyllus in habit, but with the barren 

 branches more like some small form of alpinus. ARTHUR 

 BENNETT. 



Pypus Aria, Ehrli. Does this occur anywhere in Scotland under 

 conditions that would give reason to regard it as indigenous. It is 

 common by roads and in pleasure grounds, where it has evidently 

 been planted ; and it is also not uncommon in woods in the lowlands, 

 but, so far as I have seen it, only where it might readily have sprung 

 from seeds carried by birds from planted trees. It may be 

 mentioned that in N.E. Scotland it is usually called " Mulberry," the 

 name " White Beam " never being used. It frequently grows along 

 with the Rowan or Mountain Ash (P. Aucuparia] ; and an evident 

 hybrid {P. pinnatifida, Ehrh.) occasionally accompanies the parent 

 species. What extremes of height of girth and of stem at say five feet 

 from the soil, have been observed in Scotland? JAMES W. H. 

 TRAIL. 



Bladderworts (Utrieularia) in Scotland. Although Bladder- 

 worts can scarcely be called common plants in Scotland they are 

 plentiful in a good many pools and swamps, and probably are more 

 frequent than might be supposed from their recorded distribution. 

 They are readily overlooked, owing to their growing under water, 

 often concealed among larger plants or by floating algae. They 

 appear to flower very irregularly, years passing without a trace of 

 flowers ; but occasionally numerous plants flower simultaneously. 

 Though U. rnlgaris and U. minor are met with in fair amount in 

 several places near Aberdeen, and are seen by me every summer 

 rather frequently, and U. intermedia is occasionally observed also, 

 though much more local, I cannot recall finding flowers in more 

 than three, or possibly four, out of over thirty years' observation of 

 these plants in N.E. Scotland. Do they flower more frequently in 

 other parts of the country. The Bladderworts require careful 

 scrutiny, as the species are hard to identify in absence of flowers, 

 and their distribution in Scotland is in great need of careful re- 

 vision with adequate material. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Corrections. Unfortunately, to our great regret, Mr. Druce's 

 " Notes on the New Edition of Babington's ' Manual of British 

 Botany ' " had to be printed from an uncorrected proof, and there are 

 several errors in the spelling of scientific names ; but for the most 

 part these are too evident to cause risk of misunderstanding. A 

 few, however, would convey a false meaning, and the following cor- 

 rections must therefore be specially noted : 



Page 48, line 29, insert = between " H. riolacea (Boreau) " and 

 " H. sessilifolia (Peterm) " ; and on line 30 insert == between 

 ' H. atrorubcns (Schultz) " and " H. oralis (Bab.)." 



