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sidering the Rev. Mr. Friend's supposed new species to be identical 

 with Enterion festivum (Savigny), described under the name 

 Lumbricus festivus by Rosa. 



BOTANY. 



SPECIES, VARIETIES, ETC., DESCRIBED OR OBSERVED IN GREAT 

 BRITAIN AND IRELAND SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF BABINGTON'S 

 "MANUAL," ED. 8 (1881), AND HOOKER'S "STUDENT'S FLORA," 

 ED. 3 (1884). By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. Concluded, Science 

 Gossip, October. This most useful list is here carried to the end 

 of the Vascular Plants. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, compiled by 

 William A. Clarke, F.L.S. Continued, Journ. Bot., October- 

 November. --The two instalments cover from Trifolium to Rosa 

 inclusive. Several Scottish records are noted (see p. 54 of Annals). 



FLORA OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE TAY, BETWEEN PERTH AND 

 GLENCARSE. By W. Barclay. Trans, and Proc. of the Perthshire Soc, 

 of Nat. Sc., vol. i., pt. 6, 1891-92. This enumerates all the species 

 of Vascular Plants found in the above area ; and indicates especially 

 the more rare, local, and interesting species. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (on i2th November 1891) TO THE 

 PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. By F. Buchanan White, 

 M.D. In his address Dr. White described the several excursions 

 of the Society during 1891, with especial reference to the flora of 

 the localities visited. 



ON AN APPARENTLY ENDEMIC BRITISH RANUNCULUS. By Rev. 



E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot., October, pp. 289-290, 

 plate 328. -This form is named R. petiolaris, n. sp., with the 

 synonym appended thus: " R. Flammula, L., var. petiolaris, Lange, 

 ined., Marshall in Jonrn. Bot., 1888, 230." It is now fully de- 

 scribed and figured. It has been found on "gravelly margins of 

 small Highland lakes in W. Scotland; Kingshouse, Argylej Sligachan, 

 Skye ; Assynt, W. Sutherland," growing by preference in water two 

 or three inches deep, and not more than a yard or two from the 

 margin. The characteristic habit and leaves have been constant in 

 cultivation during four years. 



AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUEI. By Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers, F.L.S. Continued, Journ. Bot., October-November. The 

 sections Radula and Koehleriantz are discussed fully in the above 

 numbers. The only plants noted from localities in Scotland are 

 R. obscurus, Kalt., from " Banchory, N. B.," and R. Koehleri, W. and 

 N., var. plinthostylus, Genev., from " Kirkcudbright." 



FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA NEW TO BRITAIN (Continued}. 

 By Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., December. The 

 following are recorded, with full descriptions, from localities in 

 Scotland: Hieradiun britannicum, n. sp., "a well-defined and 



