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characteristic plant of the extensive limestones of Central Britain," 

 and two examples in the Boswell herb., from Burntisland in Fife, 

 appear to belong to it. H. Sommerfeltii , Lindeb., var. tactum, n. 

 var., " from mountains around Kingshouse in Argyle." H. caniceps, 

 n. sp., " among the rocky burns of Sutherlandshire and Perthshire, 

 often at no great elevation above the sea." H. ccesium, Fr., var. 

 insulare, n. var., " Hitherto observed only in the vicinity of Crian- 

 larich, at 2100 to 3200 feet above the sea." H. Friesii, Htn., var. 

 hirsutitm, n. var., found in August, 1887, in the stony bed of the 

 Cluny in Braemar, and in 1891, by Dr. F. B. White, in Strath Braan 

 and at the Linn of Campsie. 



SOME SCOTTISH WILLOWS. By Edward F. Linton, M.A., F.L.S., 

 and William R. Linton, M.A. Joitrn. JBot., December. Enumerates 

 and describes many hybrids observed by the authors, chiefly in 

 Clova, one or two from Perthshire, one from Little Craigindal 

 in Braemar, and one from Dunbeath in Caithness-shire. Almost 

 all have been cultivated for some time in deep heavy soil at 

 Shirley, and in sandy peaty soil at Bournemouth, and the results 

 are embodied here. One new form is described, S. ei/genes, n. sp., 

 or n. hyb. (probably S. Myrsinites x reticulatd). 



HYPNUM PROCERRIMUM MOLENDO : A NEW BRITISH Moss. By 

 R. H. Meldrum. Trans, and Proc. of the Perthshire Soc. of Nat. Sc. 

 1892, i. pt. vi. From Ben Lawers. 



NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH ALG^E. By E. A. L. Batters, B.A., 

 LL.B., F.L.S. Grevillea, December 1892. Enumerates and de- 

 scribes numerous species, among which are the following from 

 Scottish localities : Halicystis ovalis, Aresch., Loch Goil and Kyles 

 of Bute, G. Murray ; Ectocarpus brevis, Sauvag., Berwick-on-Tweed ; 

 on Ascophyllum nodosum, E. A. L. Batters. 



REVIEWS. 



A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF LAKELAND. By the Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, M.A. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1892.) 



This is a large, handsome, and well got up octavo volume of 5 5 2 

 pages, and the latest contribution to the series of district faunas from 

 the press of Mr. David Douglas. 



The faunal area of the district comprises Cumberland and 

 Westmoreland, and Lancashire north of the Sands a land of 

 special interest to the naturalist, as one of the last remaining 

 strongholds in England of some of our most interesting beasts and 

 birds. The author is able to include a total number of 421 species 

 of vertebrate animals as having, at one time or other, occurred 

 within its limits. 



In turning over the pages of this volume, what will most strike 



