192 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



shire. Numerous -new county records are given; and several new 

 forms receive names as new species or varieties. (See "Notes and 

 News.") 



NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESHWATER ALG^; (with one plate, No. 

 333)- By William West, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., April. The materials 

 employed in the preparation of this paper were collected on several 

 of the mountains of Perthshire and Forfarshire, in New Galloway, and 

 in the Orkney Islands. It includes a number of forms not previously 

 recorded as British, and the following new to science : (Edogonium 

 Itzigsohnii, De Bary, var. nov. minor, var. nov. from Orkney; Oocystis 

 spiculata, sp. n., from Orkney; and Trochiscia paucispinosa, n. sp., 

 from Ben Lawers. 



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

 BiA., etc. Grevillea, June. The following are recorded from 

 Scotland : Cladophora crossani, Ktz., dredged in Lamlash Bay in 

 four to five fathoms of water ; Haplospora globosa, Kjellm., gathered 

 by Mr. G. Brebner near the Lion Rock, Cumbrae ; Ectocarpus 

 tomentosoides, Farlow, recently found at Weymouth, but new to Scot- 

 land, from the estuary of the Clyde, also found by Mr. Brebner. 



LANARKSHIRE RAMBLES. By Robert Turner. Ann. Andersonian 

 Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 1-17. A paper dealing with the Botany of 

 Clydesdale. 



RECORDS OF EXCURSIONS IN RENFREWSHIRE. By John Paterson. 

 Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 18-45. Notes on the Botany 

 of the parishes of Cathcart, Eastwood, Neilston, Paisley, Renfrew, 

 Inchinnan, Erskine, Kilbarchan, Lochwinnoch, Kilmalcolm, Houston 

 and Kilallan, Port-Glasgow and Inverkip. 



RARER FLOWERS OF EAST RENFREWSHIRE. By John Wood. 

 Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 46-54- 



RECORDS OF EXCURSIONS TO LOCH LOMONDSIDE. By John 

 Paterson. Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 55-65. Notes 

 on the Botany of the Luss District, Buchanan Castle and District, 

 Arrochar, and Balloch Castle. 



THE FLORA OF STIRLING AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. By 

 Johnston Shearer. Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 66-70. 



ALPINE EXCURSIONS TO CAM CHREAG AND BEINN DOIREANN. 

 By E. Raymond Burden. Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 

 71-77. Fifty-three species of plants recorded. 



ON THE FERTILISATION OF THE LARCH. By Rev. A. S. Wilson, 

 M.A., B.Sc. Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 78-82. 



SCOTCH NAMES OF NATIVE WILD FLOWERS. By John Wood. 

 Ann. Andersonian Nat. Soc., 1893, pp. 89-103. 



